Re: [LBo] Hardware glitch: Vitesse Lan chip won’t warm boot

[Sam Morgan]

Jim Westbrook wrote:

> This is the result of a Windows "feature" in which the network card is 
> not fully reset during a warmboot.  This works in Windows because it is 
> the expected behaviour.  In Linux, as you've discovered, it is less than 
> optimum.  The only cure I've found for this is to always do a full 
> shutdown and cold start when moving from Windows to Linux.
> 
does this have anything to do with the wake on lan setting in the bios? As in if 
it is turned off, does the chip behave any better? No knowledge of this, just 
asking?

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