Bug 106836

Created attachment 47279 [details]
/var/log/YaST2/*

*** Bug 73692 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

It only occurs when you have a PPPoE device that you leave unconfigured.
A workaround is to configure the PPPoE device or to configure the NIC.
So I am downgrading.

Possible solutions:
A) use a new text "Configured without an address", maybe + " (for PPPoE)"
B) turn off proposing to set up a NIC w/o address. I would have to look deeper
whether it would not disable configuring PPPoE at that stage.

AFAIK this happened during a default installation.  There's no PPPOE device
connected.  I'll double check in an hour with a default installation to see
whether this is really the case.

Yast uses SCR::Read (.probe.pppoe) which is mapped to hwinfo --pppoe. In Beta  
3 that gives almost the same output as hwinfo --network which looks suspicious  
to me. (Note that unfortunately I don't know how a valid output of hwinfo  
--pppoe should look like. The code simply checks whether the list it got is  
empty.)  
In Beta2 (f33.suse.de), hwinfo --pppoe returns nothing.  
IIRC pppoe probing is done via network traffic so I had suspected a stray  
pppoe server on the network but the actual probes seem to indicate that hwinfo  
misdetects it. Arvin am I right?  
 

I need a machine with dsl to test this. 
 
What are you doing --pppoe for anyway? It doesn't return anything useful 
even _if_ it would work. Why don't you use --dsl? 

Martin? 

Yes, something has changed:

On 9.3 hwinfo --pppoe was simply empty when no pppoe server was found.
When a pppoe server was found hwinfo listed the network interface and
included a line "Features: PPPOE".

As it seems on Beta 3 hwinfo --pppoe always lists all interfaces and
included the line "Features: PPPOE" on the one where the pppoe server
was found.

fixed in hwinfo 11.15 

Arvin, I see something slightly different: 
.probe.pppoe returns all interfaces and marks one as pppoe whereas hwinfo 
--pppoe returns all interfaces and says nothing else about pppoe. I hope that 
the fix des the right thing. 
 
f213.suse.de: 
linux:~ # echo '`Read (.probe.pppoe)' |/usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base stdio scr  
([]) 
([$["bus":"None", "bus_hwcfg":"none", "class_id":263, 
"dev_name":"eth0", "dev_names":["eth0"], "driver":"8139too", 
"model":"Ethernet network interface", "old_unique_key":"lJko.ndpeucax6V1", 
"pppoe":true, "resource":$["hwaddr":[$["addr":"00:11:5b:22:c0:97"]], 
^^^ 
"link":[$["state":true]]], "sub_class_id":1, 
"unique_key":"usDW.ndpeucax6V1"], 
$["bus":"None", "bus_hwcfg":"none", 
"class_id":263, "dev_name":"lo", "dev_names":["lo"], "model":"Loopback 
network interface", "old_unique_key":"qtiw.GQNx7L4uPNA", 
"resource":$["link":[$["state":true]]], "sub_class_id":0, 
"unique_key":"ZsBS.GQNx7L4uPNA"], 
$["bus":"None", "bus_hwcfg":"none", 
"class_id":263, "dev_name":"sit0", "dev_names":["sit0"], "model":"Network 
Interface", "old_unique_key":"Shbg.nfEXJulusj6", "sub_class_id":129, 
"unique_key":"wl2P.nfEXJulusj6"]]) 
 
linux:~ # hwinfo --pppoe 
01: None 00.0: 10701 Ethernet 
  [Created at net.111] 
  Unique ID: usDW.ndpeucax6V1 
  SysFS ID: /class/net/eth0 
  SysFS Device Link: /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:0e.0 
  Hardware Class: network interface 
  Model: "Ethernet network interface" 
  Driver: "8139too" 
  Device File: eth0 
  HW Address: 00:11:5b:22:c0:97 
  Link detected: yes 
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 
 
02: None 00.0: 10700 Loopback 
  [Created at net.111] 
  Unique ID: ZsBS.GQNx7L4uPNA 
  SysFS ID: /class/net/lo 
  Hardware Class: network interface 
  Model: "Loopback network interface" 
  Device File: lo 
  Link detected: yes 
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 
 
03: None 00.0: 10781 Network Interface 
  [Created at net.111] 
  Unique ID: wl2P.nfEXJulusj6 
  SysFS ID: /class/net/sit0 
  Hardware Class: network interface 
  Model: "Network Interface" 
  Device File: sit0 
  Config Status: cfg=no, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 
 
For the record, the discussion about the original feature request is in bug 
38662. 

With hwinfo 11.14 I only see the "pppoe":true when I have my pppoe
server turned on.  I check what hwinfo 11.15 does.

hwinfo version 11.15 returns only the interfaces with feature pppoe.
So SCR::Read (.probe.pppoe) returns an empty list if no pppoe server
was detected:

linux:~ # rpm -q hwinfo
hwinfo-11.15-2
linux:~ # hwinfo --pppoe
linux:~ # echo '`Read (.probe.pppoe)' | /usr/lib/YaST2/bin/y2base stdio scr
([])
([])
linux:~ #