[plug] Athlon64 notebooks

[Craig Ringer]

Bernd Felsche wrote:

> The profiles available with SuSE allow you to have pre-sets
> depending on where you plug in, etc. Select a profile at boot time
> (GRUB) and you're all set for the LAN insanity that may prevail at
> your usual locations; or tell it no LAN at all for when you're
> unplugged. Far nicer than waiting for DHCP to timeout during
> startup.

DHCP shouldn't need to time out on boot for normal "wired" ethernet. 
Most NICs are supported by ethtool, so ifup can just check if there is 
link on the interface. If there's no link, it's not worth even trying 
DHCP so it's skipped.

ethtool won't work with wireless interfaces, so I suppose you do have 
that problem still for them. My solution is to just ifup/ifdown the 
wireless manually, but it'd be nice to have something a bit more 
automatic - perhaps based on signal strength monitoring.

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Craig Ringer