On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 20:57 +0100, Steffen Klassert wrote:
> Did you give the patch a try?
>
> Actually I have no possibility to test, but
> I think that netif_carrier_{on,off} still does not
> work proper. The timer function does just nothing
> if vp->medialock is set.
>
Worked for me with 3c905 card in a Dell Latitude C610. I just c&p'd the
code into the vortex, so maybe vortex is different than boomerang.
Anyway, shouldn't the timer be run a bit later after the *_rx()
function?
Dan
> Steffen
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 01:29:23PM -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This patch attempts to notice carrier 'on' state a little sooner. Since
> > the carrier watchdog only fires in really, really long intervals (like,
> > 60s in most cases), it takes up to 60s to notice that a cable has been
> > plugged/unplugged. This patch fires the carrier watchdog if (1) the
> > carrier is off, and (2) packets have been successfully received.
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