Sporadically mixes up wireless network as wired

[Jarmo Ilonen]

This on current (as of 2006-09-15) Edgy, and it used to work fine on Dapper.

I have thinkpad X41 with tg3 wired card and ipw2200 wlan. Network-Manager applet in gnome sometimes shows that ipw2200 is also wired, and displays selection between two wired cards. This makes using wireless networks pretty hard as it does not show which networks are available and what are their statuses, but this doesn't matter much because wireless network to connect to cannot be selected anyway... From the few tests I have it works OK after reboot (meaning, it shows one wired and one wireless card correctly), and usually (pretty much always) gets broken (meaning, shows two wired cards) after suspend.

Here is a bit of NetworkManager --no-daemon output when coming back from suspend and recognizing both cards as wired:

NetworkManager: <information> Waking up from sleep.
NetworkManager: <debug info> [1158314002.466493] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_d3_20_7d_ea').
NetworkManager: <information> eth0: Device is fully-supported using driver 'tg3'.
NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information> Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth0'.
NetworkManager: <information> Deactivating device eth0.
NetworkManager: <information> Will activate wired connection 'eth0' because it now has a link.
NetworkManager: <debug info> [1158314002.913971] nm_hal_device_added (): New device added (hal udi is '/org/freedesktop/Hal/devices/net_00_16_6f_1b_e1_af').
NetworkManager: <information> eth1: Device is fully-supported using driver 'ipw2200'.
NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_init(): waiting for device's worker thread to start
NetworkManager: <information> nm_device_init(): device's worker thread started, continuing.
NetworkManager: <information> Now managing wired Ethernet (802.3) device 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information> Deactivating device eth1.
NetworkManager: <information> Will activate wired connection 'eth1' because it now has a link.
NetworkManager: <information> SWITCH: no current connection, found better connection 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information> Will activate connection 'eth1'.
NetworkManager: <information> Device eth1 activation scheduled...

And then it goes and activates eth1. Which is another bug as eth0 [wired tg3] was connected before suspend, but maybe it is somehow related to this bug of mixing up wired and wireless cards.

And here is what lspci says about the two cards in case it matters:
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2200BG Network Connection (rev 05)

[Jarmo Ilonen (trewas)]

I thought I checked the old bugs, but it seems that this is duplicate of Bug #60162.