My friend, if you are receiving odd kernel errors, it is either a faulty NIC or a puzzled driver.
I know that 'cause I once had the same problem. You know, most of us use rather old NIC's gathered from old PC's. At least I do. If you got that card from one of these old doorstop computers, who can assure you that it has no problems? Or it could be a faulty cable, or a problem on your HUB/Switch port. When transmit errors occour on LAN, it means that there ARE hardware problems. I can understand that since everything works quite well on your internal net and all connections to the internet, your wish is to have those messages removed. But removing the messages 'per se' does not solve your problem. Please explain us more about your setup. -----Original Message----- From: Nachman Yaakov Ziskind [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 5:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [leaf-user] Annoying duplex errors Luis.F.Correia wrote (on Mon, Aug 12, 2002 at 04:31:12PM +0100): | Well... you could also try using another NIC driver for your board. | | I guess that the 'vortex' series loosely identifies a 3Com card. | | There are a large number of cards that work with that driver. I also | recall that Donald Becker wrote drivers for those cards. | | Try other drivers and if all still goes wrong, you could also try | another NIC... But it's not the NIC or the drivers; they all work splendidly. I just want to suppress those error messages ... | [Bering rc2] | | ... getting lots of errors in both syslog and kern.log: | | Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status | register 82. Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch. See | Documentation/networking/vortex.txt | Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 3351435(11) | current 3351435(11) | Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: Transmit list 00000000 vs. c3bf14c0. | Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: 0: @c3bf1200 length 80000036 status | 00010036 | Aug 12 11:21:21 yoreach kernel: 1: @c3bf1240 length 80000036 status | 00010036 | | etc., etc. filling up the logs. | | I've read the vortex page, and I think that those packets are | spurious; since the firewall works quite well, thank you, changing the | duplex mode of my network card seems not to be in order. | | But the messages are quite a bother, and they exhaust the log | filesystem. | | Is there anyway to supress these error messages, short of turning off | logging altogether? | | NYZ -- _________________________________________ Nachman Yaakov Ziskind, EA, LLM [EMAIL PROTECTED] Attorney and Counselor-at-Law http://yankel.com Economic Group Pension Services http://egps.com Actuaries and Employee Benefit Consultants ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ leaf-user mailing list: [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-user SR FAQ: http://leaf-project.org/pub/doc/docmanager/docid_1891.html
