Re: asrock, problem with nic after windows-boot - Exact Opposite issue the OP is having

On 11 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1150066377.176032.91400@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, iforone wrote:

OK I'm back... - and yes it seems the 3 finger salutation does the
trick too...i.e.; the same thing occurs as when using Start | Restart
from within win98 (same as rebooting) -- details at the bottom (after
my "mount" dilemma and resolution)

OK, lemme jump down there.

Description . . . . . . . . : NETGEAR FA31X PCI Adapter
Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-00-00-00-00-00 <-- Note No MAC addy

OK - that's the classic problem. Something is setting the chipset on the
NIC to a state where the O/S can't read the card.

Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-0x-xx-xx-xx-xx <--Real MAC addy x-ed
out

The MAC address is not something that needs to be hidden.

IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.2
Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0

Only hosts on your local wire (192.168.0.x) can see it. The packet that
is from your computer, but on the other side of the router will have a
completely different hardware address.

Now, this looks to be something internal to windoze as the second boot
is able to correct the problem. Yeah, I'd look at the Wake-On-Lan stuff
and see if that's involved, but that's the best guess from here.

OK, I see Bit Twister seems to be on your mount problem.

Old guy
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