Windows bites Fedora

A.J. Werkman AJ.Werkman at digifarma.nl
Tue Nov 11 08:54:18 UTC 2008


Dawid Zamirski schreef:
> On Mon, 2008-11-10 at 19:06 +0100, A.J. Werkman at digifarma.nl wrote:
>> On both the Asus M2A-VM and M2N-VM DVI motherboard I noticed the following.
>>
>> I have configured the system to dual boot between windows and fedora. 
>> When I switch from windows to fedora, fedora can not get control over 
>> the build in NIC anymore. So DHCP can not configure the NIC. A software 
>> reboot and a hardware reboot don't solve the problem. The only remedy is 
>> to fysically disconnect the power cord wait a few seconds and power up 
>> directly into fedora again. As soon as windows boots the problem reoccurs.
>>
>> I saw this too on some other motherboards I don't recall the name of.
>>
>> I tested three M2A-VM boards and found this problem on all three of 
>> them. This is 100% reproducible.
>>
>> It looks like Windows leaves the NIC in a state that fedora can't 
>> handle. Anyone seen this? Anyone who has a solution to this?
>>
>> Koos.
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> 
> I suppose that your NIC chipset is r8169, if so try:

Yes
> 
> su -
> rmmod r8196
> modprobe r8196

This works for me.

Thanks.

> 
> It should get IP from DHCP after this. I've had exactly the same problem
> with my friend's PC who has Gigabyte GA-MA790X-DS4 motherboard and after
> booting into Windows and then back to Fedora 9, his NIC would not get IP
> from DCHP. I have added rmmod r8196 and modprobe r8696 to /etc/rc.local
> as workaround until this issue gets fixed in the kernel.
> 
> See:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=438046
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=460747 (F10 Blocker)
> 
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