I installed Open Suse 11 last week and it is setup to dual boot with Windows XP. Everything works fine on the installation.
And it is great because of ease of installation and user friendliness. I have also tried using OpenSUSEās Mozilla Firefox in browsing the internet,
But hereās the problem i encountered
when I restart and login to windows the internet is no longer working. It always say āMedia disconnectedā when i run ipconfig.
I tried the ff.
Complete shutting down the computer and starting up again instead of restart.
Turning off my dsl modem and turning it on again.
Reinstallation of my LAN card driver.
but i still dont got luck on that.
Since I cannot make it to work, I search the net and I found this thread:
The scenario on that thread, the computer is connected on a LAN but on my scenario, my computer is directly connected to the DSL modem.
I tried the solution mentioned in there but still got no luck. I also tried to asked the thread creator but got no reply.
Hereās my spec:
OS: Microsoft Windows XP Professional SP2
CPU: Intel(R) Coreā¢2 Duo CPU E6550 @ 2.33GHz
MEMORY: 2048MB RAM
LAN: Atheros L2 Fast Ethernet 10/100 Base-T Controller (Built in on board)
DSL MODEM: ZyXEL P-600 Series
Any suggestion and help are appreciated. Thank you very much
I have never had any such experience before. I read the thread you quoted but it doesnāt seem to offer anything useful. If it were me I would get my hands on a PCI eth device if you have a spare slot (assuming you are on a box).
But Iām not sure how Linux or Windows for that matter, can have any control over a device once it has been shutdown.
syampillai adjusted his/her AFDB on Sunday 31 May 2009 07:36 to write:
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> Just see if you have any settings in the BIOS to disable the Ethernet
> port.
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Also try and enable WOL and or Boot ROM in your BIOS.
I have seen similar probs but normally the other way round where a Win
driver will disable the LAN until the machine boots back into windows.
This was with older realtek cards I think though but it should not hurt,
enabling WOL and/or the Boot ROM should enable the card on reboot no matter
what state the driver left it.
Hi baskitcaise,
Thank you for the reply.
I tried your solution but still iām not lucky on solving the solution on our problem.
I try to enable LAN Option ROM in BIOS.
Is that the one your mentioning? Sorry, but it doesnāt work.
I check other settings related to settings in BIOS like Power On By External Modems and Power On By PCI Device but still, iām not lucky.
Found this thread it isnāt just power down really leave it off for a bit if you havenāt. The other bits may help but Iām going for a proper power down notice they discharged, what they called whatever static remained.
I also stumbled across this as well. Though they think it was related to playing with power I suspect it was just allowing the card to reset similar to the above.
I had the exact same problem, I was able to remedy this by opening device manager and uninstalling the network card; which in my case is an Intel 82567LF-2 Gigabit, either restart your computer selecting windows operating system or from the control panel select add new hardware. Your system will find the card you just deleted and reinstall the drivers for it. Hope this works for you like it did for me.
