[ltp] Curious WiFi issue dual booting w/T42 running Suse10.3

[Jeffrey Franc-Law]

I'm not sure about your specific situation however......

Is your wireless card truly not detected, or, is it just unable to get
an IP address from the router?

I do find that if I boot my machine on windows, connect to the wireless
network, then shutdown, and restart in linux (or the other way around)
my wireless router will not issue the ip address.  I beleive, since the
wireless card has the same MAC address on both systems, that the router
is confused.

I have solved this problem by resetting the router after switching from
one os to another.

Took me awhile to figure this out actually.  (slow learner).

ciao,
jfl


portsample wrote:
> I have a dual boot system on my T42 where my hard drive is shared
> between Suse 10.3 and WinXP. Earlier today I was connected into my
> wireless hub using WinXP, shut down and rebooted into Suse 10.3, at
> which point I could not get the wireless modem to be detected. I
> basically did a reinstall w/absolutely no luck. Rebooted, the whole
> works...no modem. 
> 
> THEN, I booted into WinXP to download a file, did so, shutdown WinXP and
> rebooted Suse at which point the modem was detected again and now is
> fine. 
> 
> Curious, eh? It appears that there was something about the modem that
> wouldn't allow access until I'd done another WinXP boot. The modem is
> the stock internal unit that came w/the laptop and I am using a native
> driver, (NOT ndiswrapper).
> 
> Does anyone have any ideas what may have happened? Thanks.
> 
> 

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