it means that somebody want to unregister the net device eth0 , but other programme is useing the eth0 device . and the using count is 3 . ----- Original Message ----- From: "nitin panjwani" <nitin_rpr@yahoo.com> To: <kernelnewbies@nl.linux.org> Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:38 PM Subject: unregister_netdevice > Hi Guys, > In one of my linux box I am getting following message: > > unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth0 to become free. > Usage count = 3 > > What does this messsge indicate and how can I resolve > the related problem. After this message, nothing is > working on this machine. > > Thanks, > Nitin > > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > HotJobs - Search new jobs daily now > http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/ > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/