Problem setting up wired networking

Timothy Murphy gayleard at eircom.net
Wed Nov 12 12:22:31 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 12 November 2008 10:27:12 Anne Wilson wrote:

> Referring back to the eth0/eth1 question, running 'service network status'
> gives
>
> Configured devices:
> l0 eth0 wlan0
> Currently active devices:
> lo eth1 wmaster0 wlan0
>
> Thos wmaster0 is something I've not met before.

I get
--------------------------------------------------
[tim at mary GroupRepresentations]$ service network status
Configured devices:
lo eth0 eth1 pan0
Currently active devices:
lo eth0 eth1
--------------------------------------------------
I've no idea who or what pan0 is.

On the general topic of the thread,
I have never had any problem anywhere in making an ethernet connection,
whereas I have had endless problems getting a WiFi connection.

Admittedly NM has been getting better (very slowly) as far as I am concerned -
I find it really annoying when people say NM works perfectly
instead of "NM works perfectly for ME on MY machine with MY WiFi card".
As for "It just works" that makes me want to scream.

In fact on one machine with an Orinoco Classic Gold card
NM actually works much better under F-10 than F-9.

But the fact remains that NM is unforgivably badly documented,
and the vast amount of NM data that fills my /var/log/messages
is almost completely useless as far as I am concerned.
What does "(eth1): device state change: 7 -> 8" mean?
Especially as NM then says
	"Activation (eth1) Stage 5 of 5 (IP Configure Commit) complete".






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