Re: [gentoo-user] Installation problem

[Mick]

On Monday 12 November 2007, Peter Alfredsen wrote:
> On Monday 12 November 2007, Fabio wrote:
> > Thank you very much Peter. This is my ethernet card:
> >
> > 82557/8/9 Ethernet pro 100
>
> There are two ethernet cards in your machine, as evidenced by the error
> message "eth1: PHY reset until link up". Enumeration starts at eth0, then
> eth1, etc. What is the other?
[snip]

> That being said, there are some known problems with the r8169-based cards.
> For one, they will retain state when you reboot from windows. To test if
> that is what is causing this, power off your machine and pull the plug,
> wait 1 minute, re-insert power cord and boot.

MS Windows drivers for a number of cards were updated in the last few months 
to make sure that the card powers off completely upon shutdown.  The trick is 
to either pull the plug between reboots, or to set up your BIOS to allow 
Wakeup-On-Lan.

Hope this helps.
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Regards,
Mick