Bug#610831: Notify user on link detection failure for static config

2011-01-22 Thread Matthew Palmer
Package: netcfg Version: 1.59 Severity: wishlist User: debian...@lists.debian.org Usertags: gift I've just committed a simple fix to static.c to allow netcfg to pause until it finds a good link on a statically configured interface (look for the netcfg_detect_link() call). However, if link

Bug#610831: Notify user on link detection failure for static config

2011-01-22 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Matthew Palmer (mpal...@debian.org): However, if link detection fails, the user isn't notified. I've done this because link detection isn't universal (ethtool-lite is known not to work on wireless interfaces, for example), and I don't want to break things for those users. However,