I am very well aware of the fact that you SHOULD not be able to, although from my personal experience with a friend that is studying ITS I can not confirm that you can't or rather that it could not be useful to someone who gets access to any device inside the network =) Apart from that it wasn't rea...

I had a similar problem at the beginning, with Pi and Desktop PC both being in the same network, but I was unable to connect to my Pi. I solved this by setting up a static ping script on the Pi which continuously performs a ping to the Desktop ping 192.168.xxx.yyy -t Since then it is working flawles...

Ow, thanks. ifplugd is exactly what I needed :) (ethtool's link detection only works if the interface is up afaik, thus not rally viable :( ) Edit 1: Sadly though, it doesn't work. even without a cable inserted, /etc/init.d/ifplugd restart leads to: ifplugd restart [ ok ] Network Interface Plugging ...

Thanks, but that's not my question at all. I have no connectivity problems. My plan is to run the Pi headless on a wifi connection, but if I plug in an ethernet cable prior to starting, then switch on the eth0 interface.

Hello folks, I am fairly new to the Pi community, although I already have acquired some linux skills with debian based distros over the years. Now I am trying to write a script that will check if an ethernet cable is plugged in the LAN9514 chip of my Pi B+ on boot. I want to solve this by reading th...