On Monday 17 May 2004 10:56, Derek Jennings wrote: > One of the nice things about Linux is that all configuration is > by clear text files. No messing about with arcane registry > entries is required. When you set that box in the GUI to disable > 'Network Hotplugging' what the GUI does is write > "MII_NOT_SUPPORTED=yes" into the configuration file for that > interface. You can learn an awful lot about Linux by exploring > the configuration files in the /etc folder, but of course for a > newbie it is awfully conforting to be able to use a GUI to > configure your system. > > Network Hotplugging is a daemon which looks for Ethernet > "heartbeats". Most Ethernet cards are able to detect electrical > signals which indicate that there is another ethernet device on > the other end of the cable (MII). If Network Hotplugging is > enabled your system will automatically "up" an interface when the > heartbeat is detected, and will "down" it if the heartbeat > disappears. This is especially good for laptops because it means > you can just plug in the Ethernet cable, and within a few seconds > you are connected to the network. > The downside of hotplugging is that there are a few devices which > will get confused and end up in the wrong mode, and some devices > do not support it at all. Hence the ability to disable it.
Derek, I don't know your professsional occupation, but if you published a book for linux newbies, you'd become a millionaire overnight. Kaj Haulrich. -- * Sent from a 100 % Microsoft-free computer * * running Linux kernel 2.6.4 on Mandrake 10.0 *
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