[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#567771: network-manager: NM no longer connects via RealTek r8169 Ethernet driver

[Hudson Quintaro]

Package: network-manager
Version: 0.7.999-2
Severity: important

Network-manager no longer manages connections via
my motherboard's built-in RealTek RTL-8169 Gigabit
Ethernet driver (module r8169). However, a simple "sudo
dhclient" brings up the corresponding network interface
eth2. (Suspiciously this also brings up another interface
called pan0).

Interestingly, network-manager recognizes and automatically
connects when I plug in my "ADMtek USB to Lan Converter"
(ADMtek ADM8511 Pegasus II Ethernet, module pegasus),
which maps to the eth3 interface.

This suggests that this NM bug may affect only connections
made via the r8169 driver.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (90, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages network-manager depends on:
ii  adduser                       3.112      add and remove users and groups
ii  dbus                          1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  dhcp3-client                  3.1.3-2    DHCP client
ii  ifupdown                      0.6.9      high level tools to configure netw
ii  libc6                         2.10.2-2   GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libdbus-1-3                   1.2.16-2   simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2              0.82-2     simple interprocess messaging syst
ii  libgcrypt11                   1.4.5-1    LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii  libglib2.0-0                  2.22.4-1   The GLib library of C routines
ii  libgnutls26                   2.8.5-2    the GNU TLS library - runtime libr
ii  libgudev-1.0-0                150-2      GObject-based wrapper library for
ii  libnl1                        1.1-5      library for dealing with netlink s
ii  libnm-glib2                   0.7.999-2  network management framework (GLib
ii  libnm-util1                   0.7.999-2  network management framework (shar
ii  libpolkit-gobject-1-0         0.96-1     PolicyKit Authorization API
ii  libuuid1                      2.16.2-0   Universally Unique ID library
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-23     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip
ii  udev                          150-2      /dev/ and hotplug management daemo
ii  wpasupplicant                 0.6.9-3    client support for WPA and WPA2 (I

Versions of packages network-manager recommends:
pn  dnsmasq-base               <none>        (no description available)
ii  iptables                   1.4.6-2       administration tools for packet fi
ii  modemmanager               0.3-1         D-Bus service for managing modems
ii  network-manager-gnome      0.7.999-2     network management framework (GNOM
ii  policykit-1                0.96-1        framework for managing administrat
ii  ppp                        2.4.4rel-10.1 Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) - da

Versions of packages network-manager suggests:
pn  avahi-autoipd                 <none>     (no description available)

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