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Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 07:51:22AM -0800, Auke Kok wrote: >> Your application should really `ifconfig up` the device before checking for >> link. > > And for those of us with laptops, application authors should do an > "ifconfig down" the device if it doesn't find a link. Right now > thanks to such applications on my desktop, I boot with e1000 > blacklisted so I can run in low-power mode when on a laptop. > > BTW, it would be nice if the e1000 driver could be more safely > unloaded when it is built as a module. I'm not aware of unload issues, what is the problem that you have? Auke - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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