[feisty] network-manager chooses wrong cable network

as was to expect, the same problems also appear in the installed system; to make the matter worse, NetworkManager seems to be unable to remember which interface is manually set; each time I restart the computer, again the wrong USB interface is choosen and I have no network access until I manually choose the right interface

NetworkManager should send DHCP requests on all cable network and choose an interface which responds!

I have the same problem on my system.
See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/102766 for more details.

just to confirm: this bug also happens in Feisty final; after each reboot I have to manually choose the right cable network

I got rid of the problem; I disabled the interface by blocking the responsible kernel module

sudo -s
cat > /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-usb-net-interface
blacklist gl620a
<Strg>+<D>

Can you please attach /var/log/kern.log and /var/log/daemon.log after a clean boot and (wrong) connection attempt of network-manager?

I would like to confirm this annoying bug for the (same) mainboard K7T266 Pro/-R:

Manufacturer MSI
Model MS-6380
Version 1.0A
Chipset Vendor VIA Technologies Inc
Chipset Model VT8366/A,VT8367 Apollo KT266/A,KT333 CPU to PCI Bridge
South Bridge VT8233 PCI to ISA Bridge

The network settings used to work with Ubuntu 6.06 and 6.10.

Workaround: If you disable USB in the BIOS the network manager doesn't find the unknown USB device anymore and connects to the network card as it should be. BIOS > Integrated Periperals > USB Controller: Disabled

As expected my description above applies to Ubuntu 7.04 Final.

I have upgraded my system from Kubuntu Edgy to Feisty and I have the same problem. Network Manager choose to activate the usb1 host-to-host interface instead of the eth0 ethernet interface. To activate the network, I have to manually change the active network interface trough knetworkmanager. Only eth0 is in /etc/network/interface & I don't understand why network-manager choose the usb1 interface or how I can configure it to choose eth0 instead (I expect that interfaces not listed in /etc/network/interface must not be activated at boot-time) :

May 19 18:56:13 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^IDeactivating device eth0.
May 19 18:56:14 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^IWill activate wired connection 'eth0' because it now has a link.
May 19 18:56:14 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^IWill activate wired connection 'usb1' because it now has a link.
May 19 18:56:14 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^ISWITCH: no current connection, found better connection 'usb1'.
May 19 18:56:14 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^IWill activate connection 'usb1'.
May 19 18:56:14 babaorum NetworkManager: <information>^IDevice usb1 activation scheduled...

I'm running network-manager 0.6.4-6ubuntu7 & the problem is still there.
You can find detailed info (syslog, /etc/network/interface/, nm-tool, netstat-r, lspci, lsusb) in the attached tar.gz archive

I have exactly the same problem... anyone found a solution?

[Expired for network-manager (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

This might be fixed in gutsy now ... can you please test?

Tested with: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/20070923/gutsy-desktop-i386.iso

Result: The ethernet card was chosen as the standard network interface (as expected). USB was active.

There were some problems when shutting down the live cd with the networkmanager and the new detection of the PCI USB card. However this seems to be some other problem and perhaps related to the PCI USB card, perhaps also because of the live cd and the beta status. I don't think the problem is related to this bug.

The bug seems to be corrected. Thanks for fixing it!

thanks for confirming the fix.

Hi,

I'have tested the Kubuntu 7.10 beta Desktop CD (without install) and it works
correctly : the Ethernet port is activated by default

Regard

Le Saturday 22 September 2007, Alexander Sack a écrit :
> This might be fixed in gutsy now ... can you please test?
>
> ** Changed in: network-manager (Ubuntu)
> Status: Invalid => Incomplete
>
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> [feisty] network-manager chooses wrong cable network
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/97315
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