On Thu, 2003-06-12 at 12:46, Francisco Alcaraz wrote: > A friend of mine is trying to have Internet runing Mandrake 9.1; it has a > cable-modem very similar to the mine and the same internet provider. > dhcp-client also installed, but until now it has been impossible to have the > network runing :-(. > > I have tryed to help him but I have seen some rare messages using dmesg and > ifconfig; unfortunately I can't understand if those messages are giving > ideads about how to solve the problem; so I would like to look for help; > perhaps someone in the expert list could understand the messages and help us > to resolve the problem. It has a Pentium IV with an ethernet card (eth0); > under windows the internet conection is runing fine :-( > > Those are the dmesg lines related with eth0: > > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xe0945000, 00:40:f4:77:bc:82, IRQ 19 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > ..... .. > ..... > > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. > eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) > eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. > zcip uses obsolete (PF_INET,SOCK_PACKET) > eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled. > device eth0 entered promiscuous mode > device eth0 left promiscuous mode > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. > eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) > eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. > .............. > ............. > > NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out > eth0: Tx queue start entry 4 dirty entry 0. > eth0: Tx descriptor 0 is 00002000. (queue head) > eth0: Tx descriptor 1 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 2 is 00002000. > eth0: Tx descriptor 3 is 00002000. > eth0: Setting half-duplex based on auto-negotiated partner ability 0000. > > -------------------------------------------O-------------------------------- > > Ifconfig results: > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:77:BC:82 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Interrupt:19 Base address:0x5000 > > eth0:9 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:77:BC:82 > inet addr:169.254.162.175 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0 > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > Interrupt:19 Base address:0x5000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:206 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:12266 (11.9 Kb) TX bytes:12266 (11.9 Kb) > ____________________________________________ > > What's the meaning of eth0:9???? > > > Any help will be welcome; thanks so much in advance; yours sincerely
it means it can't do anything else so it creates this by default ... I had similar problems and doing rpm -e zcip tmdns solved my problem and I was able to start working again. (and even configure the dang thing.) Seems zcip just doesn't like some cards. James
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