I have a different ethernet card than you in my laptop (it's a DEC Tulip -
21143) but I have found that I have to power off when switching between linux
and windows. It doesn't work to do a reboot. If I stay in linux, or stay in
windows, I can do a warm reboot, but to switch from one OS to the other it
requires a cold boot.
My understanding is that the 21143 is programmable at boot time with some kind
of loadable firmware, and I think this firmware is not erased in a warm reboot,
and the presence of the firmware from one OS screws up the loading of it from a
different OS.
Perhaps you have a similar problem.
What I suggest you try is making a LILO or Grub floppy (grub is available as a
package in Woody at least, or you could get the source from
http://www.gnu.org/software/grub) and power your machine down, then boot off the
floppy. If you find that a cold boot into Linux fixes your problem, then maybe
you have a similar situation to mine. If that's the case then your choice would
be to continue booting off a floppy, or put LILO or Grub into your boot block so
you can get into linux from a cold boot.
Michael D. Crawford
GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting
http://www.goingware.com/
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