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[rdunph01@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Dunphy Richard-rdunph01)]

saw this problem once with a 3Com 905Tx card with dual boot win95 and linux.

Linux required cold boot of NIC before it would work. Easy to see as the
detection phase would show a MAC ID of FF:FF:FF....etc. 

Remember reading somewhere it was something to do with Windows not properly
resetting the Plug and Play part on the PCI Bus!?

Maybe you are having similar problems.

Does a cold reboot work?

RikD.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John A. Thomas [mailto:jathomas@xxxxxxx]
> Sent: 08 February 2000 16:30
> To: SuSE Mailing List
> Subject: [SLE] Loadlin boot can't start network
> 
> 
> I'm running SuSE 6.0 on a dual-disk system.  Win98 is on drive C: and
> Linux is on the other disk, booted usually from a floppy.  
> I'm connected
> to a LAN, and thence to the Net.
> 
> Started this way, Linux sees my LinkSys network card and connects with
> no problem.  Started with loadlin from Win98, however, it doesn't
> connect.  The boot messages show no such adapter, etc.  I'm 
> switching to
> DOS real mode before running loadlin.
> 
> Has anyone had this problem?  Does this mean the loadlin boot doesn't
> reset something the cold boot does?  Is there a way to reset or reboot
> the card from DOS or Linux?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> John Thomas
> ____________________________________________________________
> John A. Thomas
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