Network Manager issue in F9

[Paolo Galtieri]

I have 2 laptops running F9.  Both run NetworkManager.  On one, a Dell
Inspiron 8600, when I run nm-tool I get the following output (for brevity
I'm only showing the wired info since that's where the issue is):

NetworkManager Tool

State: connected

- Device: eth0
----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            b44
  State:             connected
  HW Address:        00:0D:56:36:EB:13

  Capabilities:
    Supported:       yes
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           100 Mb/s

  Wired Settings


Note that it says the status is connected.  On the other laptop, a Dell
Precision Mobile M65, I get the following output

NetworkManager Tool

State: disconnected

- Device: eth0
----------------------------------------------------------------
  Type:              Wired
  Driver:            tg3
  State:             unmanaged
  HW Address:        00:00:00:00:00:00

  Capabilities:
    Supported:       yes
    Carrier Detect:  yes
    Speed:           1000 Mb/s

  Wired Settings


Note that it says the state is disconnected despite the fact that I'm logged
into the system remotely.  Also note that the MAC address associated with
the wired interface is all 0's.  What's going on here?  Anybody else see
this problem?  An lspci of the M65 shows:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and
945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port
1 (rev 01)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port
2 (rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port
3 (rev 01)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port
4 (rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 01)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA IDE
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G72GL [Quadro FX 350M]
(rev a1)
03:01.0 CardBus bridge: O2 Micro, Inc. Cardbus bridge (rev 21)
03:01.4 FireWire (IEEE 1394): O2 Micro, Inc. Firewire (IEEE 1394) (rev 02)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5752 Gigabit
Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)
0c:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network
Connection (rev 02)

The annoying aspect of this is that every time I start Firefox 3 it comes up
in offline mode.  I've had to go back to Firefox 2 to get around this
annoyance.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Paolo