qeth.2211d4 <bus ID of the qeth device>: The LAN is offline

Explanation

A start LAN command was sent by the qeth device driver but the physical or virtual adapter has not started the LAN. The LAN might take a few seconds to become available.

User response

Check the status of the qeth device, for example, with the lsqeth command. If the device does not become operational within a few seconds, initiate a recovery process, for example, by writing '1' to the 'recover' sysfs attribute of the device.

Severity

Warning