Hi, I wish to find out exactly when my network card come up. I'm using the e1000 driver/intel card and find that the driver is instantiated after 2-3 seconds after it is located. The dmesg then shows the following message: e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex Is there anyway to figure out when this condition is true? I used netif_carrier_ok() and netif_running(). Both return true but the link is not up and the packet i send does not get sent. Any ideas on any function I can loop to check if the link is actually up? Regards, Asim -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ