Re: Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-04-01 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 04/01/2016 07:48 AM, Russel Winder wrote: The latest NetworkManager upgrade appears to have fixed the WiFi connection on the T500, which is great :-) And, it now automatically detects the RJ45 wired Ethernet and responds properly. Double yay! :-)) I guess the proposed experimenting is now

Re: Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-04-01 Thread Russel Winder
The latest NetworkManager upgrade appears to have fixed the WiFi connection on the T500, which is great :-) And, it now automatically detects the RJ45 wired Ethernet and responds properly. Double yay! :-)) I guess the proposed experimenting is now redundant, or is it worth trying anyway? On

Re: Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-03-31 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/31/2016 02:44 AM, Russel Winder wrote: On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:16 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: Definitely not on this T500. Plug the RJ45 in, green lights appear, no activity of any sort trying to make a DHCP call. Cannot see any activity relating to the Ethernet in the journalctl -r

Re: Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-03-31 Thread Russel Winder
On Wed, 2016-03-30 at 11:16 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > […] > NetworkManager should bring up the wired ethernet as soon as the > port  > detects a connection. Definitely not on this T500. Plug the RJ45 in, green lights appear, no activity of any sort trying to make a DHCP call. Cannot see any

Re: Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-03-30 Thread Samuel Sieb
On 03/30/2016 11:08 AM, Russel Winder wrote: However it seems that since the last update of the iwl* files, or maybe the NetworkManager files, kernel 4.5 will not start the WiFi. From what I can see the fact that NetworkManager is still a running service means that the wired Ethernet port cannot

Lenovo T500, kernels, and NetworkManager

2016-03-30 Thread Russel Winder
My Lenovo T500 will not boot 4.6 though it will 4.5 ones. I have posted a bug report.  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1320922 However it seems that since the last update of the iwl* files, or maybe the NetworkManager files, kernel 4.5 will not start the WiFi. From what I can see the