I hope this is an appropriate place for this. I have the same problem as the above, "eth0: auto-negotiating..." every 10 seconds. I have 10.04 LTS Kernel 2.6.32-39-generic, loaded onto this system last week, it has a hard-disk to itself, not running underneath anything, entire disk under its control.
I had another problem reported, about cpu being a bit hot. Got a hit from here and cleaned several inches of dust from heat-sink, fans etc. Cpu problem gone away, ethernet "problem" persists. On the other disk I have Windows XP, which does report "cable unplugged" for the ethernet. The ethernet cable has never been plugged in under Ubuntu, only has a wireless connection. There is no apparent problem caused by this, I just don't like the idea that it might be warning me of something I'm unaware of, yet is only able to say "gahh" as far as my knowledge is concerned. I'm looking at the messages only because another machine went very slow a couple of weeks ago, and it turned out to be a problem with the hard- disk, manifesting itself originally by screwing-up something to do the the USB-controlling software, causing constant retries on multiple USB ports even though nothing was plugged into them. I have tested (both) disks here and as far as I can tell they are OK but a little concerned if I'm going to end up a week down the track doing a load of data recovery again. As Ubuntu is new on this machine, I have no idea if it is slower than it was before (which was noticeable suddenly on the other machine). Until a few months ago, under the Windows XP, this machine was connected via the ethernet. I'm sure more information is needed, as I'm somewhat new to this (which made the data-recovery even more "interesting"), so please bear with me as I respond as best as I can to requests for more. Kind regards, Bill PS. If this is in the wrong place, or should be opened as "new" or something, I apologise, but there is so much stuff out there it is difficult to spend the time when I'm a bit nervous about the unlikely event of another hard-disk failure at any moment. PPS. Having written all this now, I've just had the "brilliant" thought to close this machine down and do the research from the other one... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/350386 Title: eth0 (not plugged) auto-negotiating every 10s To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/linux/+bug/350386/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
