From: James Ketrenos <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:01:30 -0500
> The ipw2100 originally postponed doing any initialization until open was
> called. The problem at that time was that distributions were crafted to
> rely on link detection (I believe via ethtoolop's get_link) before they
> would bring the interface up.
Yes, I see, and that does work for most ethernet devices.
I noticed that Debian's 3.1 installer used this to determine
which ethernet device it should use as the default in it's
network device dialogue.
One idea, returning true for get_link when the device is down, may not
be a bad idea for the wireless case.
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