brian.james@ngc.com wrote on 26.09.2006 21:10:
> I have a dual-boot SUSE 10.1 / Windows system. The Ethernet connection works fine under Windows, but fails under SUSE 10.1.

Does it work when you boot into Windows and then do a warm boot into
Linux? I heard that some NIC drivers are reverse engineered and do not
initialize all registers. If you boot Windows the manufacturer's driver
initializes everything currently and if you are lucky the values aren't
lost during reboot.


> I suspect the issue has something to do with the way DHCP

Does the Ethernet connection work if you use a fixed IP address?


> Would appreciate any advise so I can finally dump Windows.

Is the NIC the only show stopper? Have you been lucky with other
hardware like sound card, 3D graphics card, on-board RAID controller,
printer, scanner, ... Have you found Linux equivalents for all software
you use under Windows, or at least all the software you really need? Did
the other software for which no Linux equivalent exists run under Wine?
I'm interested in your experiences, no matter if they were good or bad.

Christian