On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 08:02:37AM +1200, Andrew McMillan wrote: > Hi, > > I've added the relevant "ifconfig $1 up" to testmii in the > next-to-be-released whereami, but some testing suggests that this might > screw up other network cards that are currently working :-(
That sucks. > Do you think this problem is specific to the Sun Gem NIC? Frankly, I don't know. This is the first laptop on which I'm using whereami :-) > I could perhaps detect this type of NIC specifically and only do the > ifconfig up if necessary? Or perhaps make it configurable? A syntax like testmii eth0,up lan could mean that before testing the mii, the script has to bring up the network card (and wait a short while (about a second) for the hardware to finish its negotiation), whereas it would default to the current behaviour if that option would not be specified. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the pavement is precisely one bananosecond -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
