A good fix for this is, for wired interface, is to check if a cable is
connected/link is up at pre-up stage (mii ethernet transceiver knows).
See this fix I commited as it can also cause a long resume from STR
problem:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/236066
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Doesn't resto
it would be nice to try to do an "ifconfig vmnet1 up" if the ifup fails.
When devices are not listed in /etc/network/interfaces this is a problem.
to work around it, i've added a line
iface vmnet1 inet manual
to /etc/network/interfaces
brad
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Doesn't restore interface state correctly on resu
There's still something slightly amiss with the logic---somebody
reported this to me in-person a week ago on their laptop. Because of
'ifdown' and 'ifup' we loose the state of the interface if it was
configured by a method that was not 'ifupdown' (network-manager or
manual 'ifconfig').
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Doesn'
Same problem here - Kubuntu 6.10 restores all interfaces which are
defined in /etc/network/interfaces.
It seems that Ubuntu restores all network-interfaces after a resume or a
suspend2disk - it doesn't matter
if you commented out the "auto eth0" line.
In this case i have two default routes after
