Tag Archives: kernel

Ethernet link status with Python

Posted on October 14, 2008 by Carlos Costa

Link is a python module to determine link status (up ou down) from a given network interface. This Just supports cable network and is based on the SIOETHTOOL and SIOCGMIIPHY syscall (Linux kernel). There are two excelents references to understand … Continue reading →

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Fixing squashfs errors on the 2.6.27-rc3

Posted on August 17, 2008 by Carlos Costa

There are errors in the squashfs3.3 that turns it impossible to integrate with the next kernel 2.6.27 release candidate… during the compilation I got: LD fs/squashfs/built-in.o CC [M] fs/squashfs/inode.o fs/squashfs/inode.c: In function ‘squashfs_export_iget’: fs/squashfs/inode.c:654: error: implicit declaration of function ‘d_alloc_anon’ … Continue reading →

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