F8: NetworkManager + Static IP +Wifi

Wed Nov 21 09:45:08 UTC 2007

I upgraded from F7 to F8 recently and I noticed some changes in the
behaviour of NetworkManager.
While I did not have this problem in F7, in F8 NM cannot find my static IP
address and finds one by DHCP which is 169.254.59.61.

I am running F8 on a Dell laptop and I can connect on both a wifi network or
a cable network.
On F7 , when I unplugged the cable, the laptop was connecting to the wifi
network and when I plugged the cable, it was connecting to the wired
network.

On F8, as soon as i run NM, it is looking for another IP address by dhcp.

I have to turn off NM at boot time so eth0 get the right IP.

Anyone has an idea on how to get things right? Or is it a bug of NM?

Thanks.

Before runnning NM:
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
192.168.1.32    0.0.0.0         255.255.255.224 U     0      0        0 eth0
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
0.0.0.0         192.168.1.62    0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

After running NM and getting this weird IP address:
# route -n
Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use
Iface
169.254.0.0     0.0.0.0         255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0

Network card configuration:
# Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=none
HWADDR=00:15:C5:53:FD:F5
ONBOOT=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
USERCTL=yes
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
NETMASK=255.255.255.224
IPADDR=192.168.1.61
GATEWAY=192.168.1.62

Output of NM:
NetworkManager: <info>  starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  Found radio killswitch
/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/dell_wlan_switch
NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'b44'.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0): exporting device as
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Device/2
NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device eth0
NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device eth0.
NetworkManager: <info>  wlan0: Device is fully-supported using driver
'iwl3945'.
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0): exporting device as
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManager/Device/4
NetworkManager: <info>  Now managing wireless (802.11) device 'wlan0'.
NetworkManager: <info>  Bringing up device wlan0
NetworkManager: <info>  Deactivating device wlan0.
NetworkManager: <info>  (eth0) supplicant interface is now in state 2 (from
1).
NetworkManager: <info>  (wlan0) supplicant interface is now in state 2 (from
1).
NetworkManager: <info>  SWITCH: no current connection, found better
connection 'Auto Ethernet (eth0)'.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activating device eth0
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 1 of 5 (Device Prepare)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
starting...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
successful.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
scheduled.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 2 of 5 (Device Configure)
complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Beginning DHCP transaction.
NetworkManager: <info>  dhclient started with pid 9139
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 3 of 5 (IP Configure Start)
complete.
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.6-Fedora
Copyright 2004-2007 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
wmaster0: unknown hardware address type 801
NetworkManager: <info>  DHCP: device eth0 state changed (null) -> preinit
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:15:c5:53:fd:f5
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:15:c5:53:fd:f5
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
NetworkManager: <WARN>  killswitch_getpower_reply(): Error getting
killswitch power: An Error occurred. The Error message is:
 Could not open file /sys/devices/platform/dcdbas/smi_data. Check that
dcdbas driver is properly loaded..
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 20
NetworkManager: <info>  Device 'eth0' DHCP transaction took too long (>45s),
stopping it.
NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: canceled DHCP transaction, dhclient pid 9139
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure
Timeout) scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure
Timeout) started...
NetworkManager: <info>  No DHCP reply received.  Automatically obtaining IP
via Zeroconf.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending probe #0 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending probe #1 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending probe #2 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Got some data to check for reply packet.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip(): autoip: (eth0) recv arp type=2048,
op=0,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  source = 1.56.192.16880:11:9B:C6:C0:A8,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  target = 0.209.207.20401:3F:00:8A:00:8A

NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending announce #0 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending announce #1 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Got some data to check for reply packet.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip(): autoip: (eth0) recv arp type=2048,
op=16384,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  source =
229.134.192.1686F:06:AA:66:50:DA,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  target = 115.171.28.19201:3D:F9:8B:94:C4

NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Sending announce #2 for IP address
169.254.59.61.
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Waiting for reply...
NetworkManager: <info>  autoip: Got some data to check for reply packet.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip(): autoip: (eth0) recv arp type=2048,
op=16384,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  source =
229.134.192.1686F:06:AA:2D:50:DA,
NetworkManager: <WARN>  get_autoip():  target = 115.171.28.19201:3D:F9:8B:94:C4

NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit)
scheduled...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 4 of 5 (IP Configure
Timeout) complete.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit)
started...
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) successful, device activated.
NetworkManager: <info>  Activation (eth0) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit)
complete.
NetworkManager: <WARN>  nm_signal_handler(): Caught signal 2, shutting down
normally.
NetworkManager: <debug> [1195636347.808989] nm_print_open_socks(): Open
Sockets List:
NetworkManager: <debug> [1195636347.809073] nm_print_open_socks(): Open
Sockets List Done.
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