On Sun, 12 Jan 2003, Jure Repinc wrote: > Frederic Crozat wrote: > > There are even some network cards which don't work correctly with > > mii-tool, and of course, I have one at home : 3C905B fails to > > autonegociate and always report cable link is down.. This caused RH to > > disable mii-tool check in network initscript when using DHCP for RH 8.0 > > and with Mdk 9.0, we can't use DHCP with this card without patching ifup > > :(( >
Actually, I wonder now (after thinking about it a bit) whether ifplugd would make this simpler. Maybe drakconnect should check if ifstatus works for the card, in which case it should be configured ONBOOT=no, and ifplugd should be setup, which will bring the card up if a cable is connected. If ifstatus doesn't work, then the card should use ONBOOT=yes if the user so enables it. A gui feedback such as "This card supports cable detection" that goes hand-in-hand with disabling a 'start at boot' checkbox in drakconnect would make it all quite neat/tidy. > Is ifup patched in Mandrake 9.1 beta 1 ISO? Because I also have 3C905B > TX-NM PCI NIC which is conected to LevelOne router and it also reports > that it is unable to get DHCP info and I should check cables. I checked > all that and cabling is OK. The same card also works just fine in > Windows XP Pro SP1. > > I also filled bug about this: > https://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=781 Just for completeness, you may want to add output of: # ifstatus -v (after installing http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/cooker/ifplugd-0.11-1mdk.i586.rpm) # mii-tool -v for you network interface (ie mii-tool -v eth0; ifstatus -v eth0) Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
