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Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 14:55:15 +1000
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Cc: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Automatic detection of hardware interface
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From: Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au>
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Package: ifupdown
Severity: wishlist

(Tom, FYI only)

ifupdown should support automatically determining the physical interface
given the logical interface (or some hint anyway), as well as vice-versa.

Using the message below as an example, you should be able to say something
like:

	ifup =airport

and have a script detect that the "airport" card is actually "eth1";
and then continue normal processing, so you eventually end up bring
"eth1" up in the "home" configuration (eg).

That generalises to servers where eth0/eth1 could get mixed up (eg), and
might make things easier for proper ppp support later. Maybe.

----- Forwarded message from Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org> -----
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 13:02:48 -0700
From: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
To: debian-powerpc@lists.debian.org
Subject: Slightly newer airport sleep bits for pmud
Message-ID: <20010620130248.A26006@opus.bloom.county>

Hey all, after talking to someone else, I found out not everyone has their
airport modules loaded with autoclean, So I've appended my current version
of the script I use which should work around this.  And I moved it into
/etc/power/pwrctl-local since no official kernels support sleep yet on these
machines.  Here it is:

logger=/usr/bin/logger

case "$1" in
sleep)
        # Currently the airport driver isn't happy with sleep, so we
        # must remove it
        if [ "`lsmod | grep airport 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
                AIRPORT=`cat /proc/net/wireless | grep eth | sed 's/^  //' | cut -d : -f 1`
                ifdown $AIRPORT
                tempfile -n /var/run/airport || {
                        $logger -p daemon.error -t pwrctl "$0: cannot create tempfile"
                        exit 1
                }
                echo $AIRPORT > /var/run/airport
                # Make sure we get airport, even if it's not autoprobed.
                rmmod airport && rmmod orinoco && rmmod hermes
        fi
;;
wakeup)
        [ -f /var/run/airport ] && {
                modprobe -k airport
                ifup `cat /var/run/airport`
                rm /var/run/airport
        }
;;
*)
;;
esac
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