Re: eth0: switched to forced 10bt

[Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@langfeldt.net>]

Raph HP wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a TiBook III with Ben's kernel 2.4.20-ben1. When I do not have
> any ethernet cable plugged in, every 5 seconds I get a message
>
> eth0: switched to forced 10bt
> and
> eth0: switched to forced 100bt
>
> Is it normal?
Yes, it's normal.  If the interface is up it will try to speak ethernet 
to something at the other end of your cable.  Since there is no cable it 
keeps trying with different speeds to see if the different speeds work 
better.

ifconfig eth0 down

fixes it.

> Is there a way to get rid of it without turning eth0 down?
Why do you want it up when it's not in use?

> In a general way, is there a way to get rid of kernel messages in the
> text consoles? (I know it is not a ppc-specific question, please excuse
> me, but I did not find an answer elswere yet)
See /etc/syslog.conf

Nicolai