RE: FW: eth0 Warning


Subject: RE: FW: eth0 Warning
From: Pete Peters (ppeters@vendaria.com)
Date: Tue Dec 19 2000 - 14:28:31 MST


Uh, how did you get YDL on in the first place? And which distro?

Pete

> ----------
> From: Simon, Daniel
> Reply To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:14 PM
> To: 'yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com'
> Subject: RE: FW: eth0 Warning
>
> Ok--How can I do this? I can't see my MAC drives, I can't see my Zip
> drive,
> I can't download from the Internet? So how can I get the new kernel to
> where linux will see it. Or what is a straight forward way of mounting an
> internal ATAPI zip drive on YDL. Or should I just burn the kernel upgrade
> on a cd and then mount the cd? Any suggestions would be great.
>
> Thanks,
> Dan
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bryan Stillwell [mailto:bstill@terraplex.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2000 2:32 PM
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.yellowdoglinux.com
> Subject: Re: FW: eth0 Warning
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 18, 2000 at 08:20:00AM -0500, Simon, Daniel wrote:
> >> Hey,
> >>
> >> Need some advice. I am getting the following at the end of my
> >> bootup:
> >>
> >> eth0 PHY ID: 0x00206047
> >> eth0 Warning ! Unsupported BCM5400 PHY !
> >>
> >>
> >> Then I get:
> >>
> >> eth0 PHY reset timeout
> >> eth0 Warning ! Can't find PHY
> >>
> >> about 5 - 6 times over.
> >>
> >>
> >> I am using a G4 -- I of course don't get IP or any network protocols.
> >> Can't ping, etc.
> >> Any advice would be great.
>
> You will probably have to compile your own kernel using the 2.4test tree
> as your network card isn't supported in the 2.2.x series of kernels
> AFAIK. This web site should help you out:
>
> http://www.linuxcare.com.au/paulus/kernels.html
>
> Bryan
>
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