[WHEREAMI] Re: whereami, hibernate & ifconfig

[Andrew McMillan]

On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 12:45 -0300, Derek Broughton wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 October 2005 07:08, you wrote:
> 
> > # Always sleep 5 (with dummy location)
> > always sleep 5 dummy
> >
> > # Test for the presence of an ethernet connection plugged into eth0
> > testmii eth0 lan
> >
> >
> > Would something like that work?
> 
> Sorry, not quite.  It won't run the testmii after the sleep is successful, so 
> everything after that needs to be in a "if dummy" or "always".

Doh!

Yeah.  And, of course, the 'always' is not actually needed on _that_
one.  So the correct-ish solution is presumably:

sleep 5 dummy
always testmii eth0 lan

Also, does ethtool fail to detect the mii in the same way as mii-tool?

Cheers,
					Andrew.

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