Well, I went and made it myself.. Since my laptop has a built-in 3Com card, I set up an expect script to work with Donald Becker's mii-diag program when it is running in `--watch' mode. It's definitely not as sane as it could be, but for taking a whole 20 minutes to do, I figure it's not bad (though don't try to get me to do any more work on it.. :-p) I put mii-diag into /usr/local/bin, along with a script named expect-dhclient: #!/usr/bin/expect -f eval spawn /usr/local/bin/mii-diag --watch eth0 while {1} { expect { "Good link" { system /sbin/ifup eth0 } "have link beat" { system /sbin/ifup eth0 } "no link" { system /sbin/ifdown eth0 } "not established" { system /sbin/ifdown eth0 } } } To have it start on boot, I made a file /etc/init.d/fake-dhclient, and made appropriate startup/kill symlinks for it: #!/bin/sh -e case "$1" in start) touch /var/log/fake-dhclient /usr/local/bin/expect-dhclient 2>&1 > /var/log/fake-dhclient & ;; stop) killall expect-dhclient ;; restart|reload|force-reload) ;; esac Finally, I noticed that the mii-diag program would die whenever I did a suspend/resume, so I made another script for the APM daemon in /etc/apm/event.d/: #!/bin/sh if [ "$1" = "resume" ]; then /etc/init.d/fake-dhclient start fi -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ If speed scares you, try / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Windows. \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20020111/0274e234/attachment.pgp