Re: forcedeth, 2.6.29.1: no link during initialization

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On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 15:02:16 +0200 Harald Dunkel [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi folks,

I get these messages on every boot

[   37.413903] eth0: no link during initialization.
[   39.789316] eth0: link up.
[   39.794965] eth0: link down.
[   46.438599] eth0: link up.
[   48.407885] eth0: link down.
[   52.981754] eth0: link up.
[   52.986966] eth0: link down.

After that dhcpclient or network manager give up to try
again, i.e. the network is not set up.


I saw this mentioned several times on Google, but without
a solution. Maybe I could help to track this down?