From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1OPBP0-0002PA-Km for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:28:50 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 200B1E084C; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:27:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E2C72E084C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:27:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p4FF05621.dip.t-dialin.net [79.240.86.33]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 7A8CB4A800C for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:27:42 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:27:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.3 (Linux/2.6.33-tuxonice-r2; KDE/4.4.4; x86_64; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201006171127.40172.wonko@wonkology.org> X-Archives-Salt: ff7b8dd0-19a2-4c48-996d-7f15f0781277 X-Archives-Hash: 0a3132343f56d14342581caecbc429a9 Allan Gottlieb writes: > The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determined by whether > windows has been run since power on. I _think_ I read about such a problem ages ago, and there was a workaround. Either in the BIOS, or in Windows, some Wake-On-LAN option. If activated, Windows would not shut down the device, so Wake-On-LAN will continue to work. My memory on this is vague, but it might be worth a try to look into that. Wonko