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At Wed, 16 Jun 2010 20:04:23 -0500 Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Allan Gottlieb wrote: |
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>> I feel strange writing this since I can hardly believe it. |
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>> However, it seems to be quite repeatable. |
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>> I have a new dell latitude E6500 that I set up for dual booting: |
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>> windows 7 and gentoo linux. |
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>> The machine seems to have two "hardware" states determined by whether |
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>> windows has been run since power on. |
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>> If you power the machine on it goes into what I call State A. |
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>> Now if I either select linux from grub or just use the default we get |
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>> linux boots and eth0 works |
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>> reboot |
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>> linux boots and eth0 works |
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>> ... |
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>> reboot |
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>> linux boots and eth0 works |
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>> but now reboot into windows and we get State B |
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>> windows boots and eth0 works |
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>> reboot to linux |
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>> linux boots but eth0 fails |
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>> reboot |
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>> linux boots but eth0 fails |
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>> ... |
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>> reboot |
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>> linux boots but eth0 fails. |
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>> If I then power the machine off instead of simply rebooting |
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>> we get back to State A |
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>> |
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>> power on |
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>> linux boots and eth0 works |
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>> reboot |
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>> linux boots and eth0 works |
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>> etc. |
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>> This is quite repeatable. I would greatly appreciate an explanation. |
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>> thanks, |
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>> allan |
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> I read about this ages ago. I *think* it was windoze doing some sort |
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> of a shutdown on the card, disabling it or putting it into sleep mode |
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> if you want to call it that. It appears that Linux isn't "waking" the |
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> card up but a power cycle does. It also appears that windoze "wakes" |
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> the card up when it boots. |
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> I'm pretty sure they found a fix but I can't recall what they did. It |
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> seems they changed some sort of setting in windoze but not real sure. |
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> May want to google the mailing list archives and see if you can find |
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> it. I know it is older than the archives I have here. I keep them |
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> for a year then it dumps them. So it's been a good while. May have |
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> to dig back a while. |
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Thank you and thanks to nikos. I have googled a little and the new ones |
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I see are slightly different and the old ones use older versions of the |
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kernel and hence driver. I run gentoo-sources-2.6.34 |
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> Biggest point of reply, you're not nuts. |
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Indeed, I was concerned about that. |
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I must say that the problem is easy for me to work around. I hardly |
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ever use windows (maybe once every month or two once the systems are |
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stably installed), so having to power down is no big deal. I was just |
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worried that I had something badly configured. |
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thank you both again, |
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allan |