On Sunday 14 April 2002 04:41 pm, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have a different ethernet card than you in my laptop (it's a DEC Tulip - > 21143) but I have found that I have to power off when switching between > linux and windows. It doesn't work to do a reboot. If I stay in linux, or > stay in windows, I can do a warm reboot, but to switch from one OS to the > other it requires a cold boot. > > My understanding is that the 21143 is programmable at boot time with some > kind of loadable firmware, and I think this firmware is not erased in a > warm reboot, and the presence of the firmware from one OS screws up the > loading of it from a different OS. > > Perhaps you have a similar problem. > > What I suggest you try is making a LILO or Grub floppy (grub is available > as a package in Woody at least, or you could get the source from > http://www.gnu.org/software/grub) and power your machine down, then boot > off the floppy. If you find that a cold boot into Linux fixes your > problem, then maybe you have a similar situation to mine. If that's the > case then your choice would be to continue booting off a floppy, or put > LILO or Grub into your boot block so you can get into linux from a cold > boot.
given that windoze requires that any new hardware installation be acknowledged by a cold boot, regardless of claims made by that os, i'm willing to bet that the lack of recognition is one-sided, i.e., soft-booting into windoze, rather that in linux. is that the case? it would surprise me to hear that a loading linux kernel would miss what you've got. ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
