Mike Wright wrote:
Hello, list users,
Running FC4. Don't think this is specifically a Fedora issue but I know
this is where the brains are ;)
I recently added some AirLink 10/100/1000 network cards with the RealTek
8169 chips. They appear to function well with the exception of one
_very_ annoying trait. If there is no carrier, i.e. no cable attached
or the other end of the cable is down, they spew:
ethX: r8169: PHY reset until link up".
This is not a problem in runlevel 5, but in lesser runlevels this is
output directly to the console every few seconds, more or less making
the console useless for a workspace.
I've tried redirecting output to /dev/null in /etc/modprobe.conf but
that didn't do anything or I didn't do it correctly.
Does anybody know how to silence these beasts, or at least to direct
their plaints to the bit bucket?
Thanks for any help!
Mike Wright :m)
You could comment out the printk at line 1263 in
<kernel_sources>/drivers/net/r8169.c and rebuild your kernel.
Or you could set the klogd error message level in
/etc/sysconfig/syslog to something like "-c 4". This will stop any
warning messsages from hitting the console (I haven't tried this).
Regards,
John
