On Thu, 25 Apr 1996, Chris G Demetriou wrote:

> > How about link0 says use UTP, link1 says use AUI, neither says don't
> > meddle with the way it comes up, and both says dynamically switch as
> > necessary to cure lost carrier?  I think that would satisfy all
> > factions: you can nail it down to one connector or the other, you can
> > get the behavior I called Really Cool, or you can use whatever the boot
> > roms leave it set to.
> 
> Gee, too bad that's COMPLETELY DIFFERENT than all other ethernet
> drivers in the source tree that support multiple media connectors...
> 
> Not only that, it becomes impossible to tell (in software, from
> user-land, without special hacks) N weeks after you've booted you're
> system, which connector you're using...  (syslogs age out, and dmesg
> accumulates...)

Are you suggesting you have _both_ connectors plugged in? If you don't, 
all you have to do is to look at which cable is plugged in. Plugging both 
of them in seems a bit strange to me.

I for one really like mouse's idea, and humbly suggests that the other 
ethernet card drivers be modified in this way too.

Peter