[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/ > > > > > > -- Florin http://www.mandrakesoft.com http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~florin/
