Behaviour of eth0 not understood

[John M Phillips]

This is a hardware problem, not all hub/switches work with all network
cards!

What hub or either net switch are you using? I tried several 100/10bt 
hubs with my Powerbook.  I have had success with the Linksys BEFSR41
four port switch. 

John M Phillips   

On Mon, 28 Apr 2003, Charles Trois wrote:

> On my (new style) iMac, with YDL 2.3, I frequently see on the log lines such
> as these:
> 
> Apr 28 12:14:14 sirius kernel: eth0: switching to forced 100bt
> Apr 28 12:14:21 sirius kernel: eth0: switching to forced 10bt
> 
> and this goes on repeatedly until some sort of action is taken (I have not
> quite identified those actions that interrupt the process).
> 
> Is this quite normal, or is it proof of some defect or erroneous
> configuration somewhere? And, in this case, what should be done?
> 
> I shall be grateful for any hints.
> 
> Charles
> 
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