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From: Ovidiu Bivolaru <ovidiu@targujiu.rdsnet.ro>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update
Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:44:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DD3719.5070501@targujiu.rdsnet.ro> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200708222302.37249.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>

Hi,

Mick wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2007, James Ausmus wrote:
>   
>> On 8/19/07, Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> At long last I managed to find a work around to this problem, which was
>>> probably caused by Microsoft deciding to become environmentally
>>> friendly . . .
>>>       
> [snip...]
>
>   
>>> SOLUTION:
>>>
>>> Since all of this started with an update of the MS Windows drivers I
>>> thought that the problem has to do with some firmware or new setting,
>>> that the MS Windows drivers inflicted on the card.  Some relevant
>>> searching brought me to this page http://www.scyld.com/modules.html and
>>> the comments under The "D3-cold" problem.  Well, no sooner had I
>>> rebooted, after pulling the plug for a few seconds to make sure the
>>> machine powers down completely, the card was at long last recognised and
>>> an IP address obtained.  It seems then that the MS Windows driver shuts
>>> down the power to the card and the Linux driver does not/cannot switch it
>>> back on.
>>>       
>> Make sure you pass this info along to the kernel-side maintainer of
>> the 8139 driver you are using so that they can get the issue fixed.
>> You can find the maintainer in the source file - in this case,
>> /usr/src/linux/drivers/8139too.c - looks like it's Jeff Garzik.
>>
>> -James
>>     
>
> Done.
>
>   

Any update on this issue ? I'm using gentoo-sources-2.6.22-r5 (r2) and
I'm seeing the same problem (with gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r4 the same).

Regards,
Ovidiu

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-04 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-29  9:55 [gentoo-user] NIC problems after MS Windows update Mick
2007-07-29 13:43 ` Jakob
2007-07-29 14:34   ` Mick
2007-07-29 16:05     ` Jakob
2007-07-29 16:46       ` Rumen Yotov
     [not found] ` <200708191215.28501.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
     [not found]   ` <b79f23070708191650gab6cb3bub0a239a3dd56f252@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]     ` <200708222302.37249.michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
2007-09-04 10:44       ` Ovidiu Bivolaru [this message]
2007-09-11 22:13         ` Michele Alzetta

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