Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-17 Thread Peter Rooney
Dear Nicholas, This happens on some of my machine also, (in particular, an iBook G4 and a Blue White G3) I recall from reading some messages at boot time text that the firewire port gets called eth0. Peter ( Rooney ) Nicholas Helps wrote: [ snip ] I am also wondering why on a standard

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-17 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello Peter, Makes sense. Certainly on OSX, firewire ports are included in the list of network interfaces. I have never put Debian onto anything more modern than a Beige G3. Since these don't have firewire, all my installs have shown the built in ethernet port to be eth0 and additional PCI

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-14 Thread Nicholas Helps
Hello Peter, Wolfgang has given you lots of info and I am not sure I can help much. However... This is an info message about your network and it appears that the linux kernel keeps trying to reconfigure your ethernet interface (eth1) to 100 baseT (that is the bt notation) and then to 10

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-12 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Thanks a lot for your help Wolfgang. When I try sysv-rc ...etc I get the following error: -bash sysv-rc-conf: command not found Please bear with me as I am a total linux newbie so I have no idea how to find these scripts (/etc/init.b/ or in /etc/rcX.d). In any case these messages (about

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jan 12 2008, at 11:22 +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Thanks a lot for your help Wolfgang. When I try sysv-rc ...etc I get the following error: -bash sysv-rc-conf: command not found http://www.google.com/search?hl=enq=%22sysv-rc-conf%3A+command+not+found%22btnG=Google+Search or,

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-12 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Sat, Jan 12 2008, at 11:22 +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Please bear with me as I am a total linux newbie so I have no idea how to find these scripts (/etc/init.b/ or in ^^ My bad: It's /etc/init.d/ ... /etc/rcX.d). In any case these messages (about

error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-11 Thread Peter O'Doherty
Hi List, I've just installed debian for the first time on a Mac PowerPC and everytime I boot, the following error commands appear alternating every few seconds: eth1: switching to forced 10bt eth1: switching to forced 100bt I don't wish to set up a network at this stage and thought I

Re: error: eth1: switching to forced 10bt

2008-01-11 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
On Fri, Jan 11 2008, at 22:08 +0100, Peter O'Doherty wrote: Hi List, I've just installed debian for the first time on a Mac PowerPC and everytime I boot, the following error commands appear alternating every few seconds: eth1: switching to forced 10bt eth1: switching to forced 100bt I'm