On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 10:24:41AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 08:25:43AM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2016 at 12:14 AM, Christian Groessler > > > After > > > > > > $ ip link set eth0 down > > > $ ip link set eth0 up > > > > > > it's working again. > > > > > > But I have to be physically at the machine for this, so it's not a real > > > solution. > > > > You can put that in a script, or use screen: > > > > http://serverfault.com/questions/278838/restarting-network-through-ssh > > You can't ssh if you have no networking. Screen only helps if you have > networking working but you want to restart networking remotely. > > -- > Len Sorensen > There is certainly a way to automate this, but my question on whether that sequence would fix the problem was intended to more easily fix a real bug in the driver. I can try to help fix the driver on my free time as a volunteer. Christian, would you be willing to test patches to the driver? That would require some back and forth between us and some patience of yours, as I would be doing it on my spare time, considering I have family and other projects I would like to attend to as well. I don't have a PPC Macbook of my own, but I used to fix Linux drivers on PPC64 for a living not too long ago. Cascardo.
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