Re: asrock, problem with nic after windows-boot

On 12 Jun 2006, in the Usenet newsgroup comp.os.linux.networking, in article
<1150095724.914279.283030@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, rbalasus@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:

the driver messages from the kernel are o.k. it detect the nic and
waits for dhcp offer from a server.
and the it seems as the network cable is plugged off .

I was expecting the RealTek card - but OK. What are the rest of the
messages in /var/log/messages relating to the card at boot time. There
should only be 3 - 10 lines or so. Are you using a GUI boot, or is it a
text login? If text, before you log in on the console, press the left
shift key and PageUp key, and scroll back through the console messages.
Boot error messages normally don't go to a file, but are sent to the
console, and the only way to see them is to look back through the screen
buffer before it gets overwritten by a login or a GUI starting.

yes this is the problem, with the power state ! when i plug of the
power cable after the win boot, is all o.k. this is easier as the
variation with the bios. i think i can live with this method. it is
very rarely i boot windows.

I rarely boot - but we have all our systems on power strips - six or eight
outlets on a box with a real power switch, so that we can turn off everything
with one action.

but one question: do you think in this case an update of the modul can
help ?
it seems i got a nvidia nforce nic:
dmesg | grep eth0 shows :
eth0: forcedeth.c: subsystem: 01849:0269 bound to 0000:00:14.

If you're running 2.6.16.20, you've got the latest thing available. If you
have the kernel source installed, I'd suggest looking through the driver
source for any hints there. Doing a google search for 'asrock board
K8NF4G-SATA2' brings up several complaints about this _in_windoze_
and that problem seem to relate to windoze power management. See the
thread 'NVIDIA Forums -> K8NF4G-SATA2 problem, loses network periodically'
which was the second hit on my search.

Old guy
.

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