joukewitteveen/netcfg — comment on commit 10a01a13d3e849e576dadd5ca39be67c632f9f3a
File: scripts/wifi-menu line 203
By joukewitteveen:

I can bring my interface up in `ip` and still have carrier contain "0" and operstate contain "down".

# ip link show up dev eth0
2: eth0: mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state DOWN qlen 1000