GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 589003
applet indicates no connection while lan is active
Last modified: 2010-01-30 22:46:11 UTC
I have a lan here at home with a gateway to a dsl-router. Networkmanager knows about it and shows ifupdown (eth0) as present but the applet itself indicates no connection.
From a terminal, could you run 'nm-tool' and paste the output into this bug?
$ nm-tool NetworkManager Tool State: disconnected - Device: eth0 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Type: Wired Driver: e100 State: unmanaged Default: no HW Address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 Capabilities: Carrier Detect: yes Speed: 100 Mb/s Wired Properties Carrier: on
I add the ifconfig output: ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet Hardware Adresse 00:02:b3:cd:e1:a8 inet Adresse:192.168.1.200 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Maske:255.255.255.0 inet6-Adresse: fe80::202:b3ff:fecd:e1a8/64 Gültigkeitsbereich:Verbindung and dmesg |grep e100 [ 0.488076] pci 0000:00:0b.0: Firmware left e100 interrupts enabled; disabling [ 1.256207] e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.5.24-k2-NAPI [ 1.256263] e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation [ 1.256379] e100 0000:00:0b.0: PCI INT A -> GSI 19 (level, low) -> IRQ 19 [ 1.276307] e100 0000:00:0b.0: PME# disabled [ 1.277324] e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0xcfffc000, irq 19, MAC addr 00:02:b3:cd:e1:a8 [ 33.816237] e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex I remember that I had some issues about not available proprietary e100 driver, however, since the lan was always available I have ignored those messages I cannot find any other error with regard to the intel e100 card in dmesg. system: linux 2.6.30-1-686 and debian sid last updated within the last 5 days. gnome
Ok, so NetworkManager reports eth0 as being "unmanaged". On Debian/Ubuntu for backwards compatibility, NM is set to ignore any devices you have specified in /etc/network/interfaces, and since they are ignroed of course NM doesn't know anything about them or what their state is. If you want NM to manage those devices, you can remove any entry in /etc/network/interfaces relating to eth0 and NM should magically find the device and manage it.
*** Bug 587946 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***