Justin Guyett [justin@soze.net] responded to:
> On Fri, 3 Aug 2001, Anders Eriksson wrote:
>
>> Is it possible to get the link status change (e.g. eth
>> cable inserted in card) forwarded to userspace?
>
> mii-tool does it (comes with net-tools).
This works great for pci-based 10/100 cards, however when I
try it on my 10-meg only ISA-3c509 (eth[0-1]) and PCI-de4x5 (eth2):
mii-diag eth[0-2]
SIOCGMIIPHY on eth[0-2] failed: operation not supported
so probably there's more to it than just using mii-diag..
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