On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 01:42 +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > reopen 619520 > thanks > > On 2011-03-27 23:36:04 +0000, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote: > > ethtool just reports what the driver says. Also, the driver should > > never report link up before the interface is up. > > ethtool says that there is no link even *after* a "ifconfig eth0 up". > There's definitely something wrong, either in ethtool or in the > driver.
You (or guessnet) are running ethtool immediately after ifconfig, or using some fixed delay. This is fundamentally unreliable as link negotation is *asynchronous*. The right way to find link state is to listen for link events using netlink, as Network Manager does. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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