Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Jul 2002 23:24:26 +0200 | From | Nico Schottelius <> | Subject | network driver informations [general NIC, Wireless and e100] |
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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.
The point in fact is, looking into dmesg for connection status is definitly wrong IMHO. It's neither a clean access nor easy to watch for applications.
So what do you think about /proc/net/<DEVNAME> support for status ?
As far as I can see this is partly implemented in /proc/net/wireless or in /proc/net/dev. Adding another column in the latter would do the job, too.
Anyways, just an idea.
Hope to hear your critics,
Nico
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