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MetalWarrior
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 Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 9:25 am Post subject: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet [SOLVED] |
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Hi,
I'm having some problems with my Gigabit Ethernet, which continuously prints on dmesg:
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eth1: PHY reset until link up
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#lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 04)
0000:00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 04)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d4)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 04)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 04)
0000:01:03.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1410 PC card Cardbus Controller (rev 02)
0000:01:07.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 2915ABG MiniPCI Adapter (rev 05)
0000:01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AB22/A IEEE-1394a-2000 Controller (PHY/Link)
0000:01:0c.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev 10)
0000:03:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation NV43 [GeForce Go 6600] (rev a2)
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#uname -r
2.6.13-gentoo-r5 // I'm also trying with the new 2.6.14-r2 but it gives me more problems..
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Any suggestion?
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mbar
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 12:56 pm Post subject: |
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| It's really not a problem with card, check quality of your network cable. |
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MetalWarrior
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 3:04 pm Post subject: |
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Sorry, I think it IS a problem of the card, because it prints that message ONLY while there is no cable attached to it..
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mbar
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| Posted: Fri Nov 18, 2005 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Then this is normal behaviour, you have nothing to worry about. |
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MetalWarrior
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I tought there was something wrong.. For the moment, I removed the two lines that print on the kernel log the message from the /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/r8169.c file.
BTW, thank you for your answer! 
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GMFTatsujin
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| Posted: Thu Dec 22, 2005 5:42 pm Post subject: I hate this message |
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| This may be a normal message, but when the cable is disconnected and I know it, the message is basically taking up space in the log and burying potentially more important messages from elsewhere . . . is there any way to suppress this error message? Is the driver causing it, or some monitoring application, or what? |
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MetalWarrior
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If you simply want to remove the message (and not the cause of the message), edit the file /usr/src/linux/drivers/net/r8169.c and comment the following two lines:
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//if (netif_msg_link(tp))
//printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: PHY reset until link up\n", dev->name);
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Then recompile the kernel and you won't have the message in your logs. anymore.
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Now, with kernel 2.6.14-gentoo-r5 the problem disappeared, so I'll put SOLVED on this thread 
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