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by **winw..** » Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:34:03

I installed Redhat linux 9.0 in one of my disk partition .
at first, linux cannot recognize broadcom 440x's ethernet card.
Then I download driver through broadcom.com and successfully installed
the ethernet driver.
Now I can surf the net in linux.
But when I return to win XP , it displays "a network cable is
unplugged", but the device is working properly. (the cable is indeed
plugged)
So I failed to link to Internet in XP,but can go online in linux.

Any great man know how this happened?
How to solve this problem?
Thanks!

by **Chri** » Fri, 24 Mar 2006 18:48:34

> I installed Redhat linux 9.0 in one of my disk partition .
> at first, linux cannot recognize broadcom 440x's ethernet card.
> Then I download driver through broadcom.com and successfully installed
> the ethernet driver.
> Now I can surf the net in linux.
> But when I return to win XP , it displays "a network cable is
> unplugged", but the device is working properly. (the cable is indeed
> plugged)
> So I failed to link to Internet in XP,but can go online in linux.

> Any great man know how this happened?

Ask Bill G, he may be able to help...

Quote:> How to solve this problem?

Problem? What problem? Linux is working fine ;-)

Have you tried a new cable?

by **General Schvantzkop** » Fri, 24 Mar 2006 21:14:39

> I installed Redhat linux 9.0 in one of my disk partition . at first, linux
> cannot recognize broadcom 440x's ethernet card. Then I download driver
> through broadcom.com and successfully installed the ethernet driver.
> Now I can surf the net in linux.
> But when I return to win XP , it displays "a network cable is unplugged",
> but the device is working properly. (the cable is indeed plugged)
> So I failed to link to Internet in XP,but can go online in linux.

> Any great man know how this happened? How to solve this problem?
> Thanks!

The only way that Linux could possible effect XP is if it leaves the
ethernet card in some state that XP can't handle. Power cycle your machine
and then try XP. If XP still can't access the network then you have an XP
driver problem which has absolutely nothing to do with Linux.

BTW, why did you install Redhat 9 instead of Fedora Core 4? Redhat 9 is an
antique, Fedora Core 4 is the most recent stable free Redhat OS (Fedora
Core 5 came out this week but you should wait several months before
installing it so that they can get the bugs out). Fedora Core 4 would have
had the drivers you need.

by **mang** » Sun, 26 Mar 2006 00:39:07

you are so lovely. :-)

If I could ask Bill G, I would not have post there.

the problem is obviously in linux affecting win XP

I haven't tried since the cable is working in linux but not in XP.

by **Tauno Voipi** » Sun, 26 Mar 2006 02:44:40

> you are so lovely. :-)

> If I could ask Bill G, I would not have post there.

> the problem is obviously in linux affecting win XP

> I haven't tried since the cable is working in linux but not in XP.

1. Did you try swiching the power off after halting Linux
and before booting Windows?

2. Please post all the messages for one thread under the
same sender name, to prevent confusion. For reference,
both messages were posted from 218.83.63.32, a host in
the China Telecom network in Shanghai.

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

by **mang** » Sun, 26 Mar 2006 14:03:28

I restarted it several times.

by **mang** » Sun, 26 Mar 2006 16:08:59

General Schvantzkoph

> > I installed Redhat linux 9.0 in one of my disk partition . at first, linux
> > cannot recognize broadcom 440x's ethernet card. Then I download driver
> > through broadcom.com and successfully installed the ethernet driver.
> > Now I can surf the net in linux.
> > But when I return to win XP , it displays "a network cable is unplugged",
> > but the device is working properly. (the cable is indeed plugged)
> > So I failed to link to Internet in XP,but can go online in linux.

> > Any great man know how this happened? How to solve this problem?
> > Thanks!

> The only way that Linux could possible effect XP is if it leaves the
> ethernet card in some state that XP can't handle. Power cycle your machine
> and then try XP. If XP still can't access the network then you have an XP
> driver problem which has absolutely nothing to do with Linux.

> BTW, why did you install Redhat 9 instead of Fedora Core 4? Redhat 9 is an
> antique, Fedora Core 4 is the most recent stable free Redhat OS (Fedora
> Core 5 came out this week but you should wait several months before
> installing it so that they can get the bugs out). Fedora Core 4 would have
> had the drivers you need.

Thank you for your advice.

I tried power cycle .But problem remains.

As a linux beginner,now I can only find download of Redhat 9.

by **General Schvantzkop** » Sun, 26 Mar 2006 20:34:53

Quote:> I tried power cycle .But problem remains.

> As a linux beginner,now I can only find download of Redhat 9.

Here is a list of the mirrors for Fedora Core. Download Fedora Core 4, FC5
is brand new and likely to be buggy, FC4 is completely solid at this
point. After you install FC4 you should do an immediate update to get all
of the current packages. To do an update either run up2date or do a
yum -y update

You should also install yumex which is a graphical installer/updater. To
install it do,

yum install yumex

http://fedora.redhat.com/Download/mirrors.html

If your Windows networking problem persists after a power cycle then it's
definitely a Windows problem and completely unrelated to Linux. You know
your hardware works because it works with Linux. What you should do in
Windows is delete the networking connection and then add the connection
back.

by **mang** » Mon, 27 Mar 2006 01:13:09

I wrote to broadcom.com to ask for help.
and I got their response:
"
Response from Broadcom: Please go to network property -->Configure
-->Power Management tab and select " Allow this device to bring the
computer out of standby" and let me know if this fixes your issue?
"
But before I got their response I have already formatted the disks
which linux occupies and reinstalled it(redhat 9) there(no install
ethernet card), then the problem is solved.

I may want to try if their method make.But I seem to have no time and
no necessity to experiment that.

Thank you for your suggestion. I am downloading FC4 which you
recommended.

by **Tauno Voipi** » Mon, 27 Mar 2006 03:25:51

> I restarted it several times.

Does this mean that you turned the power off
and pulled the power plug?

To reset all aspects of the network interface,
the auxiliary +5V power supply must be off so
long time that the NIC notes it. This property
is there because of NIC's that are able to remotely
start the computer with the Ethernet 'magic packet'.

The sure-fire method to reset everything is to
shut down the computer, pull the power cable,
wait a couple of minutes, connect the power back
and boot. A simple reboot will not do.

--

Tauno Voipio
tauno voipio (at) iki fi

by **CoolFo** » Tue, 28 Mar 2006 20:04:30

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mango a crit :

Quote:> I wrote to broadcom.com to ask for help.
> and I got their response:
> "
> Response from Broadcom: Please go to network property -->Configure
> -->Power Management tab and select " Allow this device to bring the
> computer out of standby" and let me know if this fixes your issue?
> "
> But before I got their response I have already formatted the disks
> which linux occupies and reinstalled it(redhat 9) there(no install
> ethernet card), then the problem is solved.

> I may want to try if their method make.But I seem to have no time and
> no necessity to experiment that.

> Thank you for your suggestion. I am downloading FC4 which you
> recommended.

Hello !!

I already had this pbm when i had dual-boot (debian+xp)
I was forced to reboot my computer 2 times because windows didn't
recognize the state of the network card the first time.
Absolutely no idea what was the reason but this was a solution to me
when i was forced to boot xp.
But as i totally migrated on Debian SID since 3 years.... it's not a pbm
anymore !

;)

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des fois tu l'as dans la main...
des fois tu l'as dans l'cul !

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by **mang** » Wed, 29 Mar 2006 13:14:19

you meant you had solved the problem according to what broadcom.com
suggested?

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