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Controlling Hardware with ioctls

Issue 117

From Issue #117
January 2004

Jan 01, 2004  By Lisa Corsetti
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Once you learn the ioctl system call, you'll be able to check the status of the Ethernet link light and other miscellaneous but important facts about hardware.
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how to get serial port

kiransing Paradeshi(MDL) ,Bangalore's picture
Submitted by kiransing Paradeshi(MDL) ,Bangalore (not verified) on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 01:39.

how to get serial port address using ioctl

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Submitted by kiran (not verified) on Wed, 12/24/2008 - 01:36.

how to get serial port address using ioctl

Re: Controlling Hardware with ioctls

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Submitted by gmc (not verified) on Thu, 06/10/2004 - 02:00.

Not that I didn't read the article with interest, but are you aware of a ifplugd (http://www.stud.uni-hamburg.de/users/lennart/projects/ifplugd/), a nifty little tool that does exactly what you want. On my laptop I have mandrake, I configure the network to not start on boot up. Furthermore, I start ifplugd somewhere along the boot-up sequence. As soon as ifplugd sees a cable, it will run your distributions ifup command, and if it detects the cable is gone: ifdown.

Koen

Re: Controlling Hardware with ioctls

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Submitted by Alban (not verified) on Mon, 01/26/2004 - 03:00.

The article was exactly what I was looking. But when I tried the small script provided on the web site, my ethernet card went crazy. When I turn it on, it interferes with my GNOME environment and I cannot open new windows. However the network connection is fine somehow. Just to check, I tried it under windows and I cannot use it at all. Something has changed and I would like to fix it. Any idea?

I have a Thinkpad T40 with an Intel Gb/ethernet card:
02:01.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp.: Unknown device 101e (rev 03). I'm using Debian with a 2.4.24 kernel.

Thanks.
Alban

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