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Bug 340543 - Automatically bring up interface cable is inserted
Automatically bring up interface cable is inserted
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-netstatus
Classification: Deprecated
Component: general
2.12.x
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: Mark McLoughlin
Mark McLoughlin
gnome[unmaintained]
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2006-05-03 16:55 UTC by Samuel Lidén Borell
Modified: 2011-07-10 02:44 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description Samuel Lidén Borell 2006-05-03 16:55:24 UTC 
Currently the netstatus applet only detects that a cable has been inserted, but
it never actually does anything when this happens. It would be nice if it could
bring up the interface then.

On Linux you can bring an interface up using the command (where ethX is the
interface):
ifup --force ethX

I'm not sure if this feature should go into the netstatus applet or if it should
be an hotplug script.

Btw, the bug below is related to this bug:
https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-netstatus/+bug/41747
Comment 1 Dan Kegel 2008-09-11 05:08:44 UTC 
I think this works now, can probably be closed.
Comment 2 Akhil Laddha 2011-07-10 02:44:01 UTC 
gnome-netstatus development has been stalled [1]. Maintainers don't have
future development plan so i am closing the bugs as WONTFIX.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-June/msg00073.html