[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#542712: Bug#542712: Bug#542712: [network-manager] NM fails to detect eth0 on multiple network cards system

[Michael Biebl]

Abou Al Montacir wrote:
> Le vendredi 21 août 2009 à 10:03 +0200, Michael Biebl a écrit :
>> severity 5427212 important
>> thanks
>>
>> Abou Al Montacir wrote:
>>> Package: network-manager
>>> Version: 0.7.1-2
>>> Severity: serious
>>>
>>> --- Please enter the report below this line. ---
>>>
>>> I have two network cards eth0 and eth1 and NM, which used to work perfectly, stopped working after an upgrade.
>> Which version was the last working version?
> 
> I really can't tell you but it was max 3 weeks, However I'm sure that
> 0.7.1-1 doesn't work. I also had new kernel installed by the next
> weeks : I'm using sid with at least one update per week.
> 
>>> It no more detects the eth0 interface, but only the eth1.
>> According to the log, but eth0 and eth1 are detected, only eth0 (ne2k-pci) does
>> not seem to support carrier detection.
> 
> The real issue I think is that udev is instructed to rename interfaces :
> b44 --> eth0 and ne2k-pci --> eth1. However, according to logs, I see
> that ne2k-pci is loaded first and thus assigned eth0, then b44 is
> loaded. After some time, the udev will renames the interfaces, but NM
> seems to get disturbed by renaming interfaces.
> 
>>> Please find attached different configuration files and log messages.
>> If I check the logs, eth1 (b44) does seem to be correctly recognized and
>> activated. You are using a Broadcom card, for which there was a fix in 0.7.1-2.
> 
> See above, but eth1 is not b44. Following lines from /var/log/messages
> 
> Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    1.666614] eth0: RealTek RTL-8029 found at 0xb400, IRQ 23, 00:20:18:56:ad:9f.
> Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.045222] eth1: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:b9:7d:16
> Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.187172] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth0
> Aug 20 22:11:04 aziz kernel: [    2.232627] udev: renamed network interface eth0_rename to eth1
> Aug 20 22:13:05 aziz kernel: [  137.145407] eth0: Broadcom 44xx/47xx 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:e0:18:b9:7d:16
> 
> 
>> Are you certain that your problem still exists?
> 
> Of course, I've got the issue yesterday as you can see in the logs (Aug
> 20 22:11:04)
> 

Maybe your issue is related to udev:
What's the content of /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, does it help
when you remove that file and reboot.

Michael


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