Hi, Is there any way I can detect whether the physical link is connected to the network device. That is when the ethernet cable is removed from the network card a userland call back function should be invoked. Is there any such provision existing already for this. If there is no userland method is there a way to detect this from the driver code of say 8139 driver ? Thanks in advance. Regards KK - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html