Normally this occurs because the BIOS is allocating some resource to another
device during boot up, that the card wants to use.
When Windows takes over it re-inits PCI & PNP devices according to it's own
internal configuration tables.
Thus when you get to Linux after a Windows boot, Linux already sees the card
as configured to an extent.
I suppose you can overcome this with parameters to the ethernet card modules
you are using... but with as much trouble as you've been having with this
I'd have long ago switch LAN cards...
-JMS
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Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 8:05 AM
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Subject: [newbie] linux-win lan thoughts.......
hiho...
as u will possibly know from various earlier posts i am trying to connect a
linux and a win machine through thin ethernet.
up to now i was having the problem that the 2 machines were not able to
ping each other although everything was set right on both sides..
now i found a posting on deja where a guy described the same problem, he
was stating that his lan was working IF:
he first powered up the win machine and THEN the linux machine......
so i tried this and it really worked, the lan works when i am first
powering up the win machine and then the linux machine, vice versa i get
ping timeouts......
has anyone of u already experienced this or can anyone give any hints on
this phenomenon ?...
any thoughts will be appreciated......;)
--quay
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-Quaylar-
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