This is exactly what went on and was fixed immediately prior to the 9.1 release (and ifstaus -v is unchanged in either condition also).
In my case I am using the pcnet_cs card, so it probably isn't specific to driver. Bob Finch On Friday 18 July 2003 07:42 pm, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-19 at 01:25, Buchan Milne wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2003, Adam Williamson wrote: > > > Supplementary to previous - the problem I noted with ifplugd isn't > > > actually fixed. When it starts on boot, it still exits and brings the > > > connection down with it after about two minutes. I have to put the > > > connection up manually with ifup eth0. This is on my laptop, with a > > > PCMCIA WLAN card using the orinoco_cs driver. It's clearly exiting > > > intentionally, not just crashing, according to /var/log/messages. And > > > what the FUCK is wrong with Evolution's word wrap? Argh. > > > > Log messages? ifstatus -v output before and after 'service network > > restart'? It might also be an idea to see if ifplugd is affected by > > gcc-3.3.1, dropping optimisation flags may help (just tested, > > samba-2.2.8a works with -Os). > > Log: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] adamw]# cat /var/log/messages | grep ifplugd > > ... > > Jul 19 01:13:49 toy /etc/hotplug/net.agent: invoke ifplugd eth0 > Jul 19 01:13:49 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Using interface > eth0/00:20:E0:88:43:8D with driver <orinoco_cs> (version: orinoco.c > 0.13c (David Gibson <) > Jul 19 01:13:49 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Using detection mode: wireless > extensionJul 19 01:13:49 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: ifplugd 0.15 > successfully initialized, link beat not detected. > Jul 19 01:13:50 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Link beat detected. > Jul 19 01:13:51 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Executing > '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 up'. > Jul 19 01:13:54 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Program executed successfully. > Jul 19 01:14:49 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Executing > '/etc/ifplugd/ifplugd.action eth0 down'. > Jul 19 01:14:50 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Program executed successfully. > Jul 19 01:14:50 toy ifplugd(eth0)[902]: Exiting. > > 01:13 is during boot, there's nothing much going on at 01:14, it just > shuts itself down. This happens reliably on every boot. ifstatus -v > before and after restarting PCMCIA and network services shows the first > three operations not supported, then "Wireless: link beat detected".