On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 12:54 -0500, Dan Williams wrote: > 2.6.10 has a > new "carrier" file in sysfs (/sys/class/net/<interface>/carrier) that is > supposed to expose the drivers carrier state, but I have no idea what it > says when the driver doesn't actually support link-detection. >
Then you can't read from the file as described here http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/hal/2005-January/001750.html Note that hal now exports the boolean net.80203.can_detect_link which is set to TRUE when we cannot read from that file. > Technically no, we shouldn't be using MII registers directly since lack > of MII doesn't mean no link checking (and MII calls randomly crash > certain network cards), but unless we figure out another way to > determine whether or not cards support this capability, we have no > better choice... > Just use net.80203.can_detect_link. Assume it's TRUE if you cannot find the property as this is something I've just put into the 0.4.x series (should be in Fedora Rawhide). But I guess NM should roll over to using dbus 0.30 and hal 0.5.x in a few weeks when that is baked. David _______________________________________________ NetworkManager-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/networkmanager-list
