On Thursday 09 November 2006 7:49 pm, Dan Williams wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 06:40 -0500, Neal Becker wrote: > > 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 > > Found a few these lying around, and got the problem in a quick test. > > One more thing to check; plug in a cable and do: > > cat /sys/class/net/eth2/carrier > > and see what that returns.... > OK, so you're saying you duplicated the problem?
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