Am Donnerstag 22 April 2010 21:40:37 schrieb Carlos E. R.:
On 04/22/2010 09:26 PM, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Unfortunately there are multiple methods to check the link status and different drivers use different mehods and some cannot check the link status at all. The program ifplugstatus I suggested uses all all known methods for the check.
Minas-Anor:~ # ifplugstatus lo: link beat detected eth0: link beat detected wlan0: link beat detected
That's buggy, there is no cable connected on my eth0. How can there be a beat?
Minas-Anor:~ # ifplugstatus -v lo: SIOCETHTOOL: link beat detected SIOCGMIIPHY failed (Operation not supported) Wireless failed. IFF_RUNNING: link beat detected SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (Operation not supported) eth0: SIOCETHTOOL: link beat detected SIOCGMIIPHY failed (No such device) Wireless failed. IFF_RUNNING: unplugged SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (No such device) wlan0: SIOCETHTOOL: link beat detected SIOCGMIIPHY failed (Operation not supported) Wireless: link beat detected IFF_RUNNING: link beat detected SIOCDEVPRIVATE failed (Operation not supported) Minas-Anor:~ #
Looks like the driver does not support link beat detection and simply reports "link beat detected" to not break other things. BTW: there even exists hardware, that cannot report this. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org