29 Oct
2006
29 Oct
'06
07:27
On Saturday 28 October 2006 23:19, Clayton wrote:
That's possible... although odd that the kernel/driver would be able to turn off a NIC and have it persist over to other OS-es and through reboots etc.
No, not that odd. Lots of nics (including some realtecs and 3com) have the ability to have their irq and port addresses set (usually with an install utility). Those settings persist across boot. This was said to be an improvement over jumpers. I could always find a screw driver to get the case off and change the jumpers but I could never find that goddamned setup disk. -- _____________________________________ John Andersen