On 06/09/13 03:27, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
Gday, when I come out of hibernate, I have to run ifdown, ifup, for my ethernet device to make it work again (it's a USB device). I would like my ifup/ifdown script to work automatically. My /etc/network/interfaces does not have auto for my ethernet device, because I only want internet when I want it - I do not want the device on all the time, but if it was on when I hibernated, I do want it to be re-enabled when I come out of hibernation. I hope this makes sense.
I can think of at least one way of doing it.Do you have a script that you run when you want the network to start and stop?
If so, make it write the desired state to a file somewhere. Let's use "on" and "off" as the contents of the file.
Then set up the device in /e/n/i like this. I'm using eth9 as an example, and assuming your net status file will be /var/run/netstatus.
auto eth9
iface eth9 inet dhcp
pre-up ( grep -q "on" /var/run/netstatus)
If the grep fails to find "on" in the file it will return 1 and the
interface won't be started.
If it does find "on", it will return 0 and the interface will be started. -- Dom