ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
 

Hi all,

My Fedora 9 machine has 2 NICs, one onboard NIC (eth0) and one D-Link DFE-538TX (eth1).
The onboard NIC failed and I disabled it on BIOS and add a new NIC D-Link DGE-530T. When I reboot the machine, ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready is dsiplayed on command dmesg:

> dmesg

skge eth0: enabling interface
ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth0: link is not ready
eth1: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex, lpa 0x0000
eth1: no IPv6 routers present

> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

# PCI device 0x1186:0x4c00 (skge) (custom name provided by external tool)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:11:95:d7:27:19", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x1186:0x1300 (8139too) (custom name provided by external tool)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:40:05:8a:76:a6", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

> ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:11:95:D7:27:19
inet addr:10.0.0.30 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:21

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:05:8A:76:A6
inet addr:xx.xxx.xxx.xx Bcast:xx.xx.xx.xx mask:255.255.255.240
inet6 addr: fe80::240:5ff:fe8a:76a6/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:4319 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4479 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:548 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:1185010 (1.1 MiB) TX bytes:1556890 (1.4 MiB)
Interrupt:20 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:168 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:9340 (9.1 KiB) TX bytes:9340 (9.1 KiB)


Any idea what is the meaning to this messages ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP) in dmesg.
The eth0 is connected to local LAN which I cannot ping to any local machines and the eth1 is connected to internet which I can ping to the internet such as yahoo.com

The problem was caused by the defective network cable.