At Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:04:23 -0500 Dale <[email protected]> wrote:
> Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. >> However, it seems to be quite repeatable. >> >> I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: >> windows 7 and gentoo linux. >> >> The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determined by whether >> windows has been run since power on. >> >> If you power the machine on it goes into what I call State A. >> Now if I either select linux from grub or just use the default we get >> >> linux boots and eth0 works >> reboot >> linux boots and eth0 works >> ... >> reboot >> linux boots and eth0 works >> >> but now reboot into windows and we get State B >> windows boots and eth0 works >> reboot to linux >> linux boots but eth0 fails >> reboot >> linux boots but eth0 fails >> ... >> reboot >> linux boots but eth0 fails. >> >> If I then power the machine off instead of simply rebooting >> we get back to State A >> >> power on >> linux boots and eth0 works >> reboot >> linux boots and eth0 works >> >> etc. >> >> This is quite repeatable. I would greatly appreciate an explanation. >> >> thanks, >> allan >> > > I read about this ages ago. I *think* it was windoze doing some sort > of a shutdown on the card, disabling it or putting it into sleep mode > if you want to call it that. It appears that Linux isn't "waking" the > card up but a power cycle does. It also appears that windoze "wakes" > the card up when it boots. > > I'm pretty sure they found a fix but I can't recall what they did. It > seems they changed some sort of setting in windoze but not real sure. > May want to google the mailing list archives and see if you can find > it. I know it is older than the archives I have here. I keep them > for a year then it dumps them. So it's been a good while. May have > to dig back a while. Thank you and thanks to nikos. I have googled a little and the new ones I see are slightly different and the old ones use older versions of the kernel and hence driver. I run gentoo-sources-2.6.34 > Biggest point of reply, you're not nuts. Indeed, I was concerned about that. I must say that the problem is easy for me to work around. I hardly ever use windows (maybe once every month or two once the systems are stably installed), so having to power down is no big deal. I was just worried that I had something badly configured. thank you both again, allan
