Dan Williams wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 21:44 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: >> My wired enet has a bad connection, so I bought a usb2 enet adapter. It >> works fine, but I think it points out a problem with nm. It seems nm >> doesn't notice the new adapter on eth2 if I plug it in after startup, >> unless I restart nm. > > Does your adapter use the ne2k driver or something? Does the driver do > link detection? NM certainly isn't going to use your adapter unless the > driver can do carrier detect. Try 'mii-tool eth0' when a cable is > plugged in, or or 'ethtool eth0' and look for the "Link detected: " > line. If your cable is in, but neither of those report a link, then the > driver likely needs fixing. > > For example, NM won't work automatically in QEMU because the ne2k_pci > driver that suports the NE2000 hardware that qemu emulates doesn't > support carrier detect. >
sudo /sbin/ethtool eth2 Settings for eth2: Supported ports: [ TP MII ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: MII PHYAD: 3 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x00000007 (7) Link detected: yes Driver is asix device is d-link EUB-E100 _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list NetworkManager-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list