On 21/07/10 04:27, Mahmood saghaei wrote:
> I have this strange and very disturbing problem in my lfs which appears
> after connecting a LAN cable to my netbook ASUS Eee PC. The eth0
> interface works fine but there are lots of kernel output to the display
> every few minutes. The output shows that the interface goes through up
> and down cycles. These outputs are the same as the logs in kernel.log
> and sys.log: a sample is:
> Jul 21 06:29:23 lfs-first kernel: [ 69.153198] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Up <100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> Jul 21 06:29:41 lfs-first kernel: [ 87.282542] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Down
> Jul 21 06:29:43 lfs-first kernel: [ 88.870392] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Up <100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> Jul 21 06:29:46 lfs-first kernel: [ 92.212283] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Down
> Jul 21 06:29:48 lfs-first kernel: [ 93.798654] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Up <100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> Jul 21 06:29:51 lfs-first kernel: [ 97.141927] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Down
> Jul 21 06:29:53 lfs-first kernel: [ 98.724880] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Up <100 Mbps Full Duplex>
> Jul 21 06:30:01 lfs-first kernel: [ 107.004071] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Down
> Jul 21 06:30:02 lfs-first kernel: [ 108.577701] ATL1E 0000:03:00.0:
> eth0: NIC Link is Up <100 Mbps Full Duplex>
>
> I have to press Ctrl-L every now and then to clear these messages, and
> in some apps like *links* it can not be cleared. Most of the times I
> unplug the LAN cable to get rid of these annoying messages.
>
> My NIC is:
> Atheros Communications Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCI-E Ethernet
> Controller
> The driver *atl1e* compiled into the kernel.
> and I am using dhclient
>
> Anyone can help me?
If you just want to stop the kernel printing messages to the screen,
have you tried adding quiet to the kernels boot options? Like so:
menuentry "GNU/Linux" {
linux /bzImage-x86_64 root=/dev/sda2 quiet
}
Andy
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