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On Thursday 28 February 2008, Ed Wildgoose wrote: |
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> Peter Stuge wrote: |
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> > On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 11:58:13PM +0000, Ed W wrote: |
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> >> I get stuff when I plug and unplug stuff, but nothing when I put |
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> >> the network cable in/out. |
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> >> However, something appears in dmesg |
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> > |
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> > dmesg shows printk() text from drivers. The driver is saying that it |
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> > got a notice from hardware that link status changed. |
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> > This is never signalled to userspace using hotplug. I don't believe |
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> > it is signalled to userspace at all. You would have to poll the |
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> > interface. |
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> OK, makes sense. |
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right, network link status is not a hotplug event |
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> What's the best software to use to achieve the required effect? Is |
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> netplug the right solution? I get the feeling that some stuff might |
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> already be integrated into baselayout, but not really sure how all the |
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> gentoo networking stuff works? Any pointers? |
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look at the sys-apps/netplug package |
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-mike |
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