Re: [Cooker] internet connection on bootup

[J. Greenlees]

Buchan Milne wrote:

On 9 Jan 2003, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote:

Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/cooker/ifplugd-0.11-1mdk.i586.rpm

this stuff seems to use the  ETHTOOL_GLINK code to detect if link
down/up from the ETHTOOL kernel interface.

According to the readme:
- Supports the Linux SIOCETHTOOL (newer, aka ethtool API), SIOCGMIIREG
  (older, aka mii-diag/mii-tool API) and SIOCDEVPRIVATE (oldest, aka
  mii-tool API) ioctl()s for getting link status.

So, AFAIK (ianakh) all drivers *should* support it, but don't.

Last time we tried to use that stuff it had numerous problems with
some network cards that has been not converted to the ethtools
interface.

Well, maybe it's time to find out which drivers don't support it, and try
and get the maintainer to fix it?

Maybe things changed since then but i am not sure of the safeness of
this code for all network cards.

Well, someone's got to try it, so we might as well try and collect the
evidence, and if it works for a significant number (specifically laptop
cards) then it may be worth spending more effort on.

Buchan

well, with one of my pcmcia cards I didn't test it ( 3c589d )
since you did say in original post that you have found it doesn't work with 3c589 cards.
going to be a bit to test on the other (dlink DFE-680TX cardbus )
for some reason can't get my laptop to accept the cardbus for it so have to get that fixed to test it.

Jaqui