Re: e100 and hotplug on Thinkpad T23
On Friday 15 November 2002 6:49 am, Dave Thayer wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 03:27:43PM -0800, Expert User wrote:
> > > If they don't already have something to go and look, you can make one
> > > (and maybe submit it to update the package). But I think you can have
> > > it trigger other events too, so it can become your pcmcia/event.d/
> > > equivalent.
> >
> > How do I make the cable plug/unplug trigger an event?
>
> If you don't mind dipping into testing/unstable...
>
> $ apt-cache show ifplugd
how does this differ from the package laptop-net?
Thanks,
d
> Package: ifplugd
> Priority: optional
> Section: net
> Installed-Size: 144
> Maintainer: Oliver Kurth <oku@masqmail.cx>
> Architecture: i386
> Version: 0.9-2
> Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1)
> Recommends: ifupdown
> Filename: pool/main/i/ifplugd/ifplugd_0.9-2_i386.deb
> Size: 20642
> MD5sum: a78ebda25590f48fa32bfc4a0ff45f31
> Description: A configuration daemon for ethernet devices
> ifplugd is a daemon which will automatically configure your
> ethernet device when a cable is plugged in and automatically
> unconfigure it if the cable is pulled. This is useful on laptops with
> onboard network adapters, since it will only configure the interface
> when a cable is really connected.
>
> should do everything you want.
>
> HTH
>
> dt
>
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