On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 20:43:24 +0100 Inge Thorin Eidsaether <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi all! > > I'm a newcomer to Debian from FreeBSD, and have a couple of questions > some of you guys may know the answer to: > > 1 - I keep getting console messages about > 'eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full duplex, lpa 0x41E1' and > 'eth0: link down'. These two messages alternate regularly. > When the link is down, of course I cannot connect to anything. > Also, how do I avoid getting these annoying messages? I get that result when trying to use a 10/100 NIC with a 10/100 hub or router. Both the NIC and the hub/router are trying to auto-negotiate the speed and mode, and they just pointed fingers at each other without agreeing to anything. I found I needed to force my NIC to 10Mbps and half-duplex to make things work. In order to force the NIC to use a particular mode, you need to pass an option to the pcnet32 module when it loads. I looked a while for the syntax but didn't find it. Perhaps someone else here knows. Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
