Bug#490816: tulip has no link detection, under VirtualPC and Hyper-V

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

Hi Franklin,

In 2008, Franklin PIAT wrote:

> When I boot Debian under Microsoft VirtualPC 2007 or WindowsServer Hyper-V,
> the network is "disconnected".

Michael Biebl wrote:

> Looking through the upstream bug report, it seems as if the tulip driver
> / or the emulated hardware doesn't support link beat detection.
> That's why NM doesn't activate the connection.
>
> This is not a but in NM itself but rather a driver problem.
[...]
> NetworkManager: <info>  eth0: Driver 'tulip' does not support carrier
> detection.        You must switch to it manually.

Any news?  I see from the upstream bug that Grant Grundler asked some
questions in 2008 but the bugtracker doesn't seem to have any
followups.  Did you make any progress with the help of Grant?  Do you
still have access to this hardware, and if so, can you still reproduce
the bug?

Sorry for the trouble,
Jonathan