> After I installed WinXP/SP2 onto an Asus M2N Delux > machine (with nVidia 570 chipset, including two MCP55 > NICs) & rebooted back to SX44, the NIC immediately > stopped working. The same problem happend to SuSE > 10.0 & 10.1. > > However, WinXP/SP2 does not affect Fedora Core 6. In > fact, after I booted into FC6, the NIC in both SX44 > and SuSE worked again. To me this is pretty weird. > Apparently WinXP/SP2 did something the the NIC > hardward, FC6 was able to rehabitate it, but not > Solaris and SuSE. > > Can anyone give me some hints as to where I > should/could start looking into this problem? Thanks.
It appears that nForce chipsets have a programmable RAM that Windows is allowed to write some things thereto that happen to be unfriendly to Solaris and cause the embedded NIC to be unrecognizable by Solaris. One way to solve this problem is, other than flushing the RAM content with Fedora Core, after shutting down from Windows, unplug the electrical cord and let the machine cool off so as to cause the RAM content to disappear. The embedded NIC will become usable again by Solaris. Is there any way to cause Solaris to also write to (i.e., flush) this RAM, similar to what Fedora Core are doing? Thanks. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
