On Wed, 2005-01-26 at 12:44 +0100, Tom Parker wrote: > One of the machines I'm on has a 3com 3c940 onboard ethernet using the > sk98lin driver. Now, the card apparently has MII support, but the linux > driver doesn't support it, not even with either 2.6.10 or the card > manufacturer's supplied driver.
sk98lin was making hald crash the box until I've changed to using the carrier file in sysfs. Apparently because of a driver bug. My thinking is that hald should export a property net.80203.can_detect_link that is FALSE if, and only if, we cannot read the carrier file. <snip> > One option that comes to mind > is opening up a raw socket and listening for incoming ethernet frames - > if we see one, then the interface is alive.. This sounds like a great idea to do in NM, if net.80203.can_detect_link is FALSE. David _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
