Thanks a lot Mulyadi.

-Asim

On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:45 AM, Mulyadi Santosa
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 8:33 AM, Asim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I wish to find out exactly when my network card come up. I'm using the
>> e1000 driver/intel card and find that the driver is instantiated after
>> 2-3 seconds after it is located. The dmesg then  shows the following
>> message:
>>
>>  e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex
>>
>> Is there anyway to figure out when this condition is true? I used
>> netif_carrier_ok() and netif_running(). Both return true but the link
>> is not up and the packet i send does not get sent. Any ideas on any
>> function I can loop to check if the link is actually up?
>
> I just forward the answer from my friend Breno leitao. He thinks it's
> a bit in netdev->state, but he also remind me it's kinda tightly
> depend on hardware spec, so check the manual.
>
> One of the code snippet he showed to me:
> test_bit(__IXGBE_DOWN, &adapter->state)
>
> I hope that means something to you.
>
> regards,
>
> Mulyadi.
>

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