On Sunday 29 July 2007 14:43, Jakob wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> I don't know if this helps but I have a Realtek 8169 in my box and if
> I hibernate windows and then boot up gentoo my card isn't working. If
> I boot windows again and shut it down (not hibernate) and then boot up
> gentoo again the card is working. it seems that windows reserves the
> card when hibernating and only give it back to normal state with a
> normal shutdown.

Thanks jakob, every time I tried it in Gentoo, I had first shutdown WinXP 
normally.  I even removed the WinXP driver installed by MS Update and 
installed the latest one on the Realtek website:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=6&PFid=6&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false

Unfortunately, that made no difference in both OS'.  Then I updated the Gentoo 
kernel to the latest stable version (2.6.21-gentoo-r4) but still no cigar.  
Anything else I could try?  How do I troubleshoot it?
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Regards,
Mick