curious about nic status message

[Gregory Nowak]

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I'm not sure if this is what you're looking for, but

ifconfig eth0

should tell you among other things, the link status for your first
network interface. Depending on your card, you may also see messages
about the link status in your dmesg output.

Greg


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 07:02:30PM -0400, tony seth wrote:
> Hi all:  I remember when I installed debian on this system before, and 
> although I didn't keep it and went back to slackware, there was 
> something I liked but don't know how to get in slackware, but I think 
> it's possible.  When I was running debian, I have a network cable that 
> pops out sometimes, and when it took occasion to do this one time, the 
> system reported that the link was down, and when I put the cable back 
> in reported that the link was up, and at full duplex etc.  How, if 
> possible do I get this behavior to occur in slackware, I did see it 
> during startup, but how do I get it right when it occurs after startup? 
> Thanks much...
> Cheereo!
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