Re: [gentoo-user] (dual) booting windows kills the ethernet device for linux

[Allan Gottlieb]

At Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:27:38 +0200 Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:

> 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.

Thanks.   I just looked and the google hits I looked were about trouble
recovering from hibernation.

thanks again,
allan