[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Jensen) writes:

> ah, that may be the source of the problem....When I'm using my wireless nic the
> output of /sbin/mii-tool is:
> 
> eth0: no link
> SIOCGMIIPHY on 'eth1' failed: Operation not supported
> 
> Does it see the "Operation not supported" for the wireless nic then try to run
> DHCP for both interfaces?  (eth0 is the onboard nic, eth1 is my SMC wireless nic)

it tries dhcp on the interface seen and configured for dhcp ...

> 
> 
> 
> Quoting Florin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 
> > Hi, 
> > 
> > this is already done in the check_link_down () function. See the
> > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/network-functions file for that. The
> > /sbin/ifup script already uses that function.
> > 
> > cheers,
> > 
> > >Mike Jensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > 
> > > I'm currently unable to post to the list, but here's what I've done to make
> > mine
> > > work more smoothly...(You're welcome to forward this to the cooker list as
> > a
> > > temporary workaround.)
> > > 
> > > All I did was modify /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 to include
> > the
> > > following "if" statement:
> > > 
> > > DEVICE=eth0
> > > BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> > > NETMASK=255.255.255.0
> > > ONBOOT=yes
> > > HWADDR=00:08:76:2a:1e:18
> > > if [ "`/sbin/mii-tool | grep eth0 | grep -c "no link"`" = "1" ]; then
> > >      ONBOOT=no
> > > fi
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Florin      
>       http://www.mandrakesoft.com
> >     
>       http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
> > 
> 
> 
> 
> 

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