Thank you for your reply. What you propose may work fine if you plug/unplug your pcmcia card.
But, as in my case, it is usless if you let permanently you card in its plug: with realport card pluging means pluging the cable to the card. Any more idea ? Thanks in advance, Jerome Chanop Silpa-Anan wrote: > > Once upon a time, I heard Jerome BENOIT say > > > Hi all ! > > > > I have a very naive question: > > is there a very simple way to run job periodically > > BUT only when the LAN connection is enabled ? > > Here is my way. Since I am having only one lan connection, I still use a > network start up script in pcmcia package (/etc/pcmcia/network.opts). In > that file you can put a start up function there e.g. put > /etc/init.d/anacron start when network is up and vice versa. > > OTH, you may use pcmcia with the ifupdown package. For this case, you can > use "up /etc/init.d/anacron start" in /etc/network/interfaces. > > check ifupdown and pcmcia pacakages for more info. > > Cheers,, > > Chanop > > PS. my laptop is running sid/woody. > -- > ,----------------------------------------------------------------. > | May Debian be with you ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]| > `----------------------------------------------------------------' > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Part 1.2Type: application/pgp-signature
