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

[Anita Lewis]

On 10/20/2006 12:57 PM Jisao wrote:
> (Warning.  Advanced hardware topic - long)
> 
> I recently purchased a Gigabyte 64 bit GA-K8N51PVMT-9 motherboard with 
> onboard Lan (Vitesse 8201 phy chip, a successor of Cicada 8201 chip).
> 
> The problem I have with it and Linux is that the network “won’t work” if I 
> reboot after having run Windows. I get a nice Linux distribution without 
> network support.
> 
>

I know I read something about this, but can't find it now.  I did find a 
couple of things about flushing or changing the MAC address.  I really 
know nothing about this, but maybe one of these threads will help. 
Essentially, the idea is to reset the MAC address:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=421897

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=160280

For the last one, on Ubuntu, I think this would go into 
/etc/init.d/xinetd. They show the filename for Slackware there.

There might be other things found under "reset MAC Address" but then 
again, that may not be what you need to do.

Anita