[NTLUG:Discuss] Networking problem (was Invisible cursor)

[Douglas Scott]

On Monday 16 October 2006 1:07 pm, Justin M wrote:

> I also had the MCP51 on board NIC and dual booted with Suse 10.1/Windows.
>
> It turns out windows would leave the NIC in a weird state.  Suse would
> bring up the NIC and it looked normal except that it was not
> transmitting any packets(just receiving).  If you unplug your box from
> the wall removing full power before going to Linux and the NIC acts
> correctly then you are having the same issue.  I am able to replicate
> the problem every single time after going from windows to Linux.
>
> I believe there was a mention to turn off "wake on LAN" to get around
> this issue.  The other option was not booting into Windows at all... :-)
>
> Justin
>

I upgraded the BIOS to the newest version Saturday night and haven't had any 
problems with Linux since then.  Apparently the original BIOS worked well 
with Windows but not Linux.  The explanation above might have been the source 
of the problem, but I know that the power was completely disconnected for a 
period of time and I still could do nothing with the network under Linux.

Since the upgrade I have had no further network problems, and have directly 
booted from Linux into Windows XP and back with no issues.

Doug