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

[Jeffrey Taylor]

Did you take down the interface (i.e., give up the lease) before switching OS?
The router may see the same MAC addres and think nothing needs to be done.

HTH,
  Jeffrey

Quoting Jeffrey Franc-Law <jfl@voltarace.com>:
> 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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