Hi, Mick wrote: > On Monday 20 August 2007, James Ausmus wrote: > >> On 8/19/07, Mick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was >>> probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally >>> friendly . . . >>> > [snip...] > > >>> SOLUTION: >>> >>> Since all of this started with an update of the MS Windows drivers I >>> thought that the problem has to do with some firmware or new setting, >>> that the MS Windows drivers inflicted on the card. Some relevant >>> searching brought me to this page http://www.scyld.com/modules.html and >>> the comments under The "D3-cold" problem. Well, no sooner had I >>> rebooted, after pulling the plug for a few seconds to make sure the >>> machine powers down completely, the card was at long last recognised and >>> an IP address obtained. It seems then that the MS Windows driver shuts >>> down the power to the card and the Linux driver does not/cannot switch it >>> back on. >>> >> Make sure you pass this info along to the kernel-side maintainer of >> the 8139 driver you are using so that they can get the issue fixed. >> You can find the maintainer in the source file - in this case, >> /usr/src/linux/drivers/8139too.c - looks like it's Jeff Garzik. >> >> -James >> > > Done. > >
Any update on this issue ? I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r5 (r2) and I'm seeing the same problem (with gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4 the same). Regards, Ovidiu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
