how to silence error output from NIC

[Mike Wright]

John Wendel wrote:
> 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).
> 

Thanks, John,

Works like a charm.

:m)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> John
>