Version: (using KDE KDE 3.5.1) Installed from: Slackware Packages OS: Linux KInfoCenter does not list all my network interfaces. Specifically it's missing my wireless interface. In the list KInfoCenter just shows eth0 and lo, but ifconfig also shows ra0 (CWC854 ralink based card, using RT61 drivers).
Hi Dori, thanks for your bug report. Sadly I can't reproduce your problem on my SUSE 10. My wireless (Atheros, ath0) is listed. Maybe it's some kind of Slackware-problem ? Anyway, can you please attach the output of "ifconfig", a screenshot of kinfocenter and the output of "route" to this bug report ? THX, Helge
Here's the output, identifying material X'ed out. I'll attach a screenshot as well. dori@XXXXXXXXX:~$ ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:192.168.0.5 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:518551 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:381354 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:647451622 (617.4 Mb) TX bytes:36339802 (34.6 Mb) Interrupt:11 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:428 (428.0 b) TX bytes:428 (428.0 b) ra0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:2702372 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:7899 errors:55 dropped:55 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:1831 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:225808883 (215.3 Mb) TX bytes:189576 (185.1 Kb) Interrupt:11 dori@moya:~$ route Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 192.168.0.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo default 192.168.0.1 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0
Created attachment 14781 [details] KInfoCenter displaying interfaces, missing wireless
Thanks for the info Dori. I think the problem is, that your ra0 device doesn't has any valid IP address assigned (I assume you have no connection with this card atm). Could you test my assumption by doing a "ifconfig ra0 192.169.1.1 up" temporary and start the infocenter again ? The infocenter code gets a list of all possible network cards by trying to open a network connection via TCP/IP and since ra0 has no IP it's not usable as a TCP/IP network device...
Yes in that case it shows up, but shouldn't it show all available interfaces, whether they have a network connection or not?
No, I don't think so. On my laptop I have eth0, ath0(wireless), wifi0, lo and sit0. In principle I currently can only use ath0 and lo, since I'm connected wireless. sit0 isn't interesting, so why should I show it, or even wifi0 ? (closing as notabug/invalid for now.) PS: "/sbin/ifconfig -a" shows you all your active and inactive cards
Created attachment 15172 [details] Screenshot with only lo showing up I and someone else have this or a similar problem on Kubuntu Dapper with KDE 3.5.1 https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/kdebase/+bug/31261 On the "Network Interfaces" page only lo shows up even though eth0 is working and active and I'm using it right now: ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX inet addr:129.64.141.181 Bcast:129.64.141.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::213:8fff:fe4a:2930/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:15388 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10091 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 RX bytes:5654555 (5.3 MiB) TX bytes:4649912 (4.4 MiB) Interrupt:66 Base address:0xe800 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:23 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:1172 (1.1 KiB) TX bytes:1172 (1.1 KiB) I did try hitting the "Update" button but it has no effect. Seems this bug was dismissed because the reporter had the interface down. However, there is a "State" column on the page, so interfaces that are not activated should still show up, with "down" in that column.