[Debian-olpc-devel] Bug#511495: sugar: Collaboration not working

[Sascha Silbe]

After about 12 hours of various debugging attempts, I finally found the 
problem: /etc/network/interfaces contains an additional "up"-rule for 
activating Wake-On-LAN on eth0. This caused network-manager to ignore 
this device, so Sugar wasn't seeing any internet connection and didn't 
even try connecting to the Jabber server.

Background information:
[1]: Sugar starts plugins for both link-local and server-based 
collaboration, but only ever uses one of them. The server-based one uses 
NetworkManager to wait for a valid IPv4 address and thus won't be 
activated if NetworkManager isn't handling the internet connection.
[2]:
   > Only devices that are *not* listed in /etc/network/interfaces or 
which have been configured "auto" and "dhcp" (with no other options) are 
managed by NM.

There doesn't seem to be any way to enable Wake-On-LAN via 
NetworkManager.

[3]: There's currently no way to let a interface be managed by 
NetworkManager (which seems to be required for it to be shown to Sugar) 
_and_ activate Wake-On-LAN via custom "up"-rule.


I can work around this by moving the ethtool line into rc.local (it's a 
hardwired interface, so no hotplugging), but it's rather ugly and really 
unexpected. Will file seperate bugs about it, though.


[1] http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Presence_Service#Active_connection
[2] /usr/share/doc/network-manager/README.Debian (on lenny)
[3] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=508383

CU Sascha

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