Package: networkmanager
See bug number 402547 (originally filed against debian-installer) for
previous discussion.
The problem does seem to be that NetworkManager doesn't know what to
do with the bmac interface, because it doesn't have carrier detect,
so NetworkManager can't tell when it's up or down.
One workaround (I've tried this and it works) is to declare the
interface to be "static" and assign it a permanent IP address,
netmask, etc... You can do this at install time (hit the "cancel"
button when the installer is trying to get its address from the LAN
DHCP server, then enter the static parameters.) Or you can do it
after install by adding the appropriate stanza to the /etc/network/
interfaces file. There are probably more sophisticated things you
can do that will allow you to keep using dhcp without involving (and
confusing) networkmanager, but I haven't tried them.
This will prevent NetworkManager from messing with the interface.
See "man 5 interfaces" and /usr/share/doc/network-manager for details.
In an ideal world, the NetworkManager would recognize the bmac as
being hardwired and not disable it, but that may be more difficult
than it sounds.
Rick
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