> Network Manager (the freedesktop.org one) fails to work with Linus's
> current git on a couple of different boxes I have here. All the boxes
> have different NIC types, with different drivers.
>
> I've bisected it down to cd40b7d3983c708aabe3d3008ec64ffce56d33b0 ,
> "[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious". I've
> double checked this by testing the kernel as of the immediately
> previous commit; Network Manager works with that one, as it did on all
> my machines in 2.6.23-mm1.
>
> The netlink change seems to confuse N-M, and it somehow decides that
> there's no link beat, so doesn't try to bring up the interface. If I
> run "ifconfig eth0 up", N-M will decide there's a carrier after all
> and takes over. Ethtool detects the link state correctly even with
> the interface down.
>
> If I down the interface again with ifconfig, N-M brings it right back
> up without a problem, but if I kill N-M, it'll down the interface
> before it exits, and fail in the same way as before when restarted.
>
> N-M also emits this error:
>
> "-- Error: Invalid message: type=DONE length=20 flags=<MULTI> sequence-nr=1193012574 pid=1185943630"
>
> ...which it doesn't do on kernels where it works normally.
> strace'ing NetworkManager shows that it prints that message just after
> talking over a netlink socket.
>
> Networking otherwise works fine here with the latest git and N-M, if I
> use the ifconfig "trick" to get the link up.
>
> --
> Joseph Fannin
>
jfannin@gmail.com
>
>
