On 12 Jan 2003, Chmouel Boudjnah wrote: > Buchan Milne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > But surely if mii-tool works on a card, then use it to determine whether > > the problem is the database that the one who work and the one who > doen't and grep on the kernel drivers will not work, we did real world > testing.
I don't quite follow, but are you telling me 1)It's impossible (aka the hardware doesn't support it in all cases) 2)It's impossible, the working of the interfaces isn't deterministic on whether the kernel implements the interfaces of not 3)It's too much work But, as far as I can see, if it does work on a significant number of cards, and one knows when it isn't working, it should be possible to use it when it is working? Should I continue work on ifplugd and see how it works in the 3 cases: 1)ifstatus doesn't work 2)ifstatus does work can cable connected 3)ifstatus does work and cable disconnected ? Or should we just give up and say it's not feasible to run Mandrake on laptops except if the users has root and knows what he's doing? Unfortunately Windows handles this aspect quite well (even if their 'autoconfiguration address' thing is non-standards-compliant, it does work to disconnect a laptop from the lan, and connect it via loopback to another one, and everything *just* works, well, as well as windows normally works ;-)). Buchan -- |----------------Registered Linux User #182071-----------------| Buchan Milne Mechanical Engineer, Network Manager Cellphone * Work +27 82 472 2231 * +27 21 8828820x121 Stellenbosch Automotive Engineering http://www.cae.co.za GPG Key http://ranger.dnsalias.com/bgmilne.asc 1024D/60D204A7 2919 E232 5610 A038 87B1 72D6 AC92 BA50 60D2 04A7
