Ubuntu
network-manager package

carrier detect broken for forcedeth and other drivers

Bug #332064 reported by Alexander Sack
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
network-manager (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-6
Jaunty
Fix Released
Critical
Unassigned
Ubuntu jaunty-alpha-6

Bug Description

Binary package hint: network-manager

since latest 2.6.28 kernels network-manager doesnt work for forcedeth; evaluation showed that the problem is that now IFF_LOWER_UP is used to indicate that wired devices have a carrier.

We are still investigating where the kernel is moving so we dont end up hacking on every new kernel version.

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

critical, because forcedeth driver doesnt work with NM anymore.

Changed in network-manager:
importance: Undecided → Critical
status: New → Triaged
Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

fix summary is:
    core: use IFF_LOWER_UP instead of IFF_RUNNING for carrier (lp #332064)

    We really have wanted to use IFF_LOWER_UP since 2.6.17 for carrier
    status, since that's tied to netif_carrier_ok()/netif_carrier_on() in
    the kernel. See kernel commit b00055aacdb172c05067612278ba27265fcd05ce
    for the introduction of IFF_LOWER_UP.

Changed in network-manager:
milestone: none → jaunty-alpha-6
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package network-manager - 0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1

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network-manager (0.7.1~rc1+20090220-0ubuntu1) jaunty; urgency=low

  * upstream 0.7.1 rc1 (post) snapshot
    + http://git.freedesktop.org/NetworkManager/NetworkManager/
    + NETWORKMANAGER_0_7 (branch)
    + Feb 20, 2009 (a2b55d43)
  * Fix LP: #332064 - carrier detect broken for forcedeth and other drivers

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:30:39 +0100

Changed in network-manager:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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