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

[Jim Westbrook]

Sam Morgan wrote:

> 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?
>
Not that I know of, Sam.  The Windows behaviour has been the same since 
W98SE.  However, I have always disabled the "wake on lan" feature simply 
because I was not going to use it.  I employ the "green" features of my 
monitor, but nothing else.

JimW