From: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
"Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2@gentoo.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: e1000/ICH8LAN weirdness - no ethtool link until initially forced up
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 07:59:57 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4551FEFD.2060002@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061107193518.GA26579@thunk.org>
Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:51:22AM -0800, Auke Kok wrote:
>> Your application should really `ifconfig up` the device before checking for
>> link.
>
> And for those of us with laptops, application authors should do an
> "ifconfig down" the device if it doesn't find a link. Right now
> thanks to such applications on my desktop, I boot with e1000
> blacklisted so I can run in low-power mode when on a laptop.
>
> BTW, it would be nice if the e1000 driver could be more safely
> unloaded when it is built as a module.
I'm not aware of unload issues, what is the problem that you have?
Auke
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-08 16:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-06 1:31 e1000/ICH8LAN weirdness - no ethtool link until initially forced up Robin H. Johnson
2006-11-07 7:14 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-07 15:51 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-07 19:35 ` Theodore Tso
2006-11-08 15:59 ` Auke Kok [this message]
2006-11-07 21:31 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-11-07 22:32 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-08 3:56 ` Robin H. Johnson
2006-11-08 12:04 ` Pavel Machek
2006-11-08 19:54 ` General network driver suspend/resume (was e1000 carrier related) Stephen Hemminger
2006-11-08 21:10 ` Auke Kok
2006-11-08 21:33 ` Stephen Hemminger
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