From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@ecsc.co.uk>
To: Nico Schottelius <nico-mutt@schottelius.org>
Cc: linux.nics@intel.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100]
Date: 01 Aug 2002 13:00:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1028203217.32264.44.camel@lemsip> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020731212426.GA3342@schottelius.org>
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On Wed, 2002-07-31 at 22:24, Nico Schottelius wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I recently tried the e100 driver and was happy that it reports
> if there is a connection and speed and so on.
>
> But should these informations not be reported through /proc-fs ?
> I think this would make it easier for programs to monitor connection
> status. We could even have a small red/green light in the KDE panel
> to display connection status for different cards.
AFAIK this information is already available for ethernet cards with an
MII tranciever via a bunch of ioctl()'s. Google for mii-diag.c for an
example.
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// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at ecsc dot co dot uk)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-08-01 11:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-31 21:24 network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] Nico Schottelius
2002-08-01 12:00 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2002-08-01 12:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-01 17:42 ` John Levon
2002-08-02 0:26 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-08-02 19:19 ` Greg KH
2002-08-04 20:12 ` Nico Schottelius
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