On Wednesday 26 September 2007 13:33:09 Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le mercredi 26 septembre 2007 à 12:49 +0530, Antano Solar a écrit : > > When the cmos battery is removed and power unplugged and the system > > booted . I press f2(load defaults) in the cmos screen and the syetm boots > > very slowly and detects my lan card. i.e ifconfig -a lists eth0. > > But after this if I shut down the computer and start again or even > > restart it , the network card is not detected . when the network card > > goes undetected even if I boot into windows it remains undetected in > > windows also. To make the netowrk card appear again I need to rerun the > > procedure of removing the batters and unplugging power cable. > > If the problem appears in other operating systems, it sounds like it is > caused by the hardware or the firmware - either the BIOS or the network > card's.
The problem occurs in windows only if I do a shutdown in linux. When i boot in windows and restart again or shutdown and start it is fine. But the card disappears only after I boot into linux and shutdown