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.
-- // Gianni Tedesco (gianni at ecsc dot co dot uk) 8646BE7D: 6D9F 2287 870E A2C9 8F60 3A3C 91B5 7669 8646 BE7D
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