Re: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt

["Mikko Fallenius" <mikko.fallenius@pp.inet.fi>]

> This appears because of something like the following in syslog.conf
> #       *.=debug;*.=info;\
> #       *.=notice;*.=warn       /dev/tty8

There are no entries in syslog.conf for /dev/tty1 (local console)
or any other console except a "|/dev/xconsole" entry which seems
to be for some mail related messages.
tty1 is where the login prompt and the eth0: messages
appear after the boot sequence.

I just can't figure out how to suppress
certain messages by using syslog.conf.

> I suggest you install mii-diag to troubleshoot this problem, with
> mii-diag you can monitor auto-negotiation. 
> You might want to force 100 full duplex ;) if available at 
> the other end
> of the wire...

Sorry, I forgot to mention that the network card reads
"for 10baseT or Coax" on it. And it really seems to work fine.

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mikko Fallenius [mailto:mikko.fallenius@pp.inet.fi]
> > Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 7:19 AM
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: eth0: flipped to 10baseT appears on login prompt
> > 
> > I have just installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) on an
> > IBM Thinkpad 760E with the Debian installation floppies.
> > 
> > There's a 3com EtherLink III 3C589B PCMCIA adapter
> > and when the system boots and the login prompt appears
> > a message "eth0: flipped to 10baseT" appears twice
> > and messes up the login prompt. You can get the login
> > prompt displayed again by pressing enter and everything works.
> > So this is quite a minor issue.
> > 
> > I'm just wondering if I could get it to not mess up the
> > login prompt.
> > 
> >  Mikko Fallenius

 Mikko Fallenius