Network Manager (the freedesktop.org one) fails to work with Linus's current git on a couple of different boxes I have here. All the boxes have different NIC types, with different drivers.
I've bisected it down to cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0 , "[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious". I've double checked this by testing the kernel as of the immediately previous commit; Network Manager works with that one, as it did on all my machines in 2.6.23-mm1. The netlink change seems to confuse N-M, and it somehow decides that there's no link beat, so doesn't try to bring up the interface. If I run "ifconfig eth0 up", N-M will decide there's a carrier after all and takes over. Ethtool detects the link state correctly even with the interface down. If I down the interface again with ifconfig, N-M brings it right back up without a problem, but if I kill N-M, it'll down the interface before it exits, and fail in the same way as before when restarted. N-M also emits this error: "-- Error: Invalid message: type=DONE length=20 flags=<MULTI> sequence-nr=1193012574 pid=1185943630" ...which it doesn't do on kernels where it works normally. strace'ing NetworkManager shows that it prints that message just after talking over a netlink socket. Networking otherwise works fine here with the latest git and N-M, if I use the ifconfig "trick" to get the link up. -- Joseph Fannin [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
