Re: NetworkManager removes IP address from eth0 (bugzilla #132348 & #132038)

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 01:18:30AM -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> For (2), we need to fix the kernel drivers to use netif_carrier_*() 
> routines, but some cards don't actually support link checking and for 
> those, we are out of luck.

For those you have to lob out a few dhcp packets and see what happens