Link is up / Link is down HAL signals

[Kay Sievers]

On Fri, May 05, 2006 at 03:37:45PM +0200, Michal Krenek wrote:
> if I disconnect my network cable, I can immediately see this in dmesg:
> b44: eth0: Link is down.

> There is EjectPressed signal while pressing eject button on CD/DVD and 
> there should be also similar signals for connecting/disconnecting network 
> cable, something like LinkUp and LinkDown.
> 
> This would be great feature, because one can for example catch these signals 
> in ivman and run /etc/rc.d/network start/stop (or some other programs) 
> automatically.

Try NetworkManager, this feature has moved from HAL to NM.

Kay