Re: e100 and hotplug on Thinkpad T23

[Shyamal Prasad <shyamal.prasad@sbcglobal.net>]

    "Expert" == Expert User <expert@bapat.net> writes:

    Expert> In /etc/hotplug/net.agent file there are appropriate
    Expert> entries for ifup & ifdown.  # cat /etc/sys/kernel/hotplug
    Expert> shows '/sbin/hotplug'.

    Expert> BUT, removing & inserting the cable, does not have the
    Expert> desired effect of running ifup & ifdown on eth0.

    Expert> What is missing?

    Expert> Any help is apreciated.

Ummm....going out on a limb here since I'm no hotplug expert, but
AFAIK hotplug refers to *devices* being plugged into a bus that is
"hot pluggable."  An example of such a bus is USB, or Cardbus. 

The link going up or down is not the same as the ethernet driver being
plugged in and out of a device bus like USB. Perhaps that is why it
does not run ifup/down.

See /usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.4.18/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt.gz
for some more information.

Feel free to tell me I'm wrong, I'd like to know.

Cheers!
Shyamal