Bug 10971 – no way of querying for physical status of eth0

Bug 10971 - no way of querying for physical status of eth0

Summary:

no way of querying for physical status of eth0

Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME

Product:	SB Touch
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	OS
Version:	unspecified
Platform:	PC Other

Importance:	-- normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assigned To:	Richard Titmuss

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Reported:	2009-02-05 14:30 UTC by Ben Klaas
Modified:	2009-09-08 09:29 UTC (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Ben Klaas 2009-02-05 14:30:22 UTC

I'd like to be able to write a jive.net.Networking method to query for whether the physical eth0 link is up, and currently Fab4 has no information available through proc/ or any command-line tool.

Brandon and Tom both suggested considering compiling in ethtool. That might give the added benefit of being able to get some additional information on the ethernet link.

Altnerative would be a small C program to get hard link status.

Comment 1 Richard Titmuss 2009-02-06 04:20:24 UTC

This is already done, Networking:t_wpaStatus() will report the ethernet link status. It is used by the Ethernet status screen.

Comment 2 Richard Titmuss 2009-03-26 04:35:34 UTC

*** Bug 11201 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***