I would expect wmx0 to show up in ifconfig anyway, unless you blacklist
the i2400m_usb module. This is a 4G broadband device.
The actual network card on this system is an Atheros, which is still seen by
lspci:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Atheros Communications Inc. AR8162 Fast
Ethernet [1969:1090] (rev 10)
Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:055b]
Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr-
Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- DisINTx-
Status: Cap+ 66MHz- UDF- FastB2B- ParErr- DEVSEL=fast >TAbort- <TAbort-
<MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- INTx-
Latency: 0, Cache Line Size: 64 bytes
Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 16
Region 0: Memory at d0400000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=256K]
Region 2: I/O ports at 2000 [size=128]
Capabilities: <access denied>
Kernel driver in use: alx
Kernel modules: alx
The wired network device seems to be found at boot:
alx 0000:02:00.0: alx(84:8f:69:c6:d3:35): Qualcomm Atheros Ethernet Network
Connection
I also have a system with a WiMAX device. I also see it being listed as a
wired device with nm-tool:
- Device: wmx0 -----------------------------------------------------------------
Type: Wired
Driver: i2400m_usb
State: unavailable
Default: no
However, it does not affect my real wired devcie:
- Device: eth0 [Wired connection 1] -------------------------------------------
Type: Wired
Driver: e1000e
State: connected
Default: yes
Do you see your Atheros wired device at all with nm-tool?
There could be two issues here:
1. Network Manager is marking WiMAX as a wired device, which may or may not be
desired. I'll add a nm task to the bug, so this can be reviewed. I also see
my nm marked my WiMAX card as a wired device.
2. The AR8162 device is not functioning properly, which could be driver
related, since it appears in lspci.
Can you try a few tests?
1. Does this system have a hardware switch or hot keys to disable wifi? If
so, can you disable wifi and reboot to see if the AR8162 device appears in
ifconfig -a?
2. Can you rmmod then modprobe the alx driver to see if it will allow the
AR8162 to appear?
3. Can you also check that the AR8162 device has a link light.
** Also affects: network-manager (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
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WiMAX - Intel Centrino Wireless-N + WiMAX 6150 BGN [8087:07d9] was
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