Ok..I'll hunt down what's going on. I guess since it's not a life threating issue with the the machine/kernel that will cause it to die. I'm alright. Thanks for the headsup. :) * Christopher Mahmood (ckm@suse.com) [020404 13:57]: ::* Ben Rosenberg (ben@whack.org) [020404 13:42]: ::> Yep..there sure is and yep..it sure is a 3Com. ::> ::> "3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX" ::> ::> Apr 4 12:13:02 frell kernel: eth0: Transmit error, Tx status register 82. ::> Apr 4 12:13:02 frell kernel: Probably a duplex mismatch. See Documentation/networking/vortex.txt ::> Apr 4 12:13:02 frell kernel: Flags; bus-master 1, dirty 72746(10) current 72746(10) ::> ::> Any suggestions? :: ::The listed vortex.txt is interesting...this might even be caused by ::another host segment that is trying to do full duplex when your ::network is actually half duplex. -=Ben --=====-----=====-- mailto:ben@whack.org --=====-- "I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad thing." -JC --=====-----=====--