Topic: eht0: something wicked has happened

[keith silman]

we are running e-smith 4 and this message appears before the ethernet card times out (D-link DFE-530TX).  We occasionally had the message on e-smith 3.1 but it did not crash.
what does the error message mean and why does it crash the system?

[Charlie Brady]

keith silman wrote:

> we are running e-smith 4 and this message appears before the
> ethernet card times out (D-link DFE-530TX).  We occasionally
> had the message on e-smith 3.1 but it did not crash. what does
> the error message mean and why does it crash the system?

There is some scant information about "something wicked" at:

http://www.scyld.com/network/ethercard.html

It's some driver and/or hardware problem, but that's the best information I can give you. Sorry.

Charlie