Bug#248061: some link detection code all ready there

2008-03-31 Thread John Morrissey
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:30:17PM +0100, Frans Pop wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, John Morrissey wrote: > > These interfaces take a while to negotiate a link, probably because > > spanning tree is enabled on the switch ports they're attached to, so it > > necessarily takes a while for the

Bug#248061: some link detection code all ready there

2008-03-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Wednesday 27 February 2008, John Morrissey wrote: > These interfaces take a while to negotiate a link, probably because > spanning tree is enabled on the switch ports they're attached to, so it > necessarily takes a while for the port to enter the forwarding state. Is > there a way to have d-i/n

Bug#248061: some link detection code all ready there

2008-02-27 Thread John Morrissey
On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 11:50:32AM +0100, Geert Stappers wrote: > After some research, I found out that my eth1 indeed had no MII ioctl > support. So the installer was right to ask for choosing a NIC. > > People with multiple NICs, that do have MII ioctl support, > in their installed system and se

Bug#248061: some link detection code all ready there

2007-11-09 Thread Geert Stappers
Where this bug was opened two and half year ago, there was yet only tagging information in this bugreport. netcfg has allready program code to detect if a network interface is live. A month ago I did an install on a computer with two NICs where only one was connected to a switch. I was surprise