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Re: detecting ethernet connection



Le 12535ième jour après Epoch,
Andreas Stempfhuber écrivait:

> Hi all,
>
> Am Montag, 26. April 2004 21:40 schrieb François TOURDE:
>> Try "apt-get install ifplugd" ... A fantastic tool using run-parts
>> to run on plug/unplug status.
>
> very nice tool, it works also with WLAN (ndiswrapper), if the WLAN interface 
> is already pre-configured with iwconfig.
>
> Therefor my question is, is there a designed way to pre-configure a network 
> interface without activating it?
>
> My current workaround is to use the lo interface to pre-configure wlan0 in 
> /etc/network/interfaces:
>
> auto lo
> iface lo inet loopback
>         pre-up iwconfig wlan0 mode ad-hoc essid afulinux
> 	...
>
> wlan0 has no auto statement and therefor is only activated by ifplugd if the 
> HF part of the WLAN device is turned on (my notebook has a key to turn it on 
> and off). This is working fine with my current configuration, but however, 
> the configuration itself looks like a workaround for me...
>
> Is there a designed way to configure things like this?

I presume you can use a /etc/init.d/wlan script to do iwconfig, and
put something like:

iface wlan0 inet manual
    up ....
    down ...

on your /etc/network/interfaces file ....


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