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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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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 |