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".


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