Installed windows XP on Sun ULtra 40, networking on solaris stopped working

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The scenario is following. I have three separet hard drives. On one I have Solaris, on seconed one RHEL 4 and on third one Windows XP 64. The windows and third had drive have been installed last.

Before everything was working smoothly. I dual booted the OS I wanted (Solaris or Red Hat) and DHCP gave me IP addresses, no problem. After booting once to windows, the networking stopped working on Linux and on Solaris. Windows works OK. Has anyone else experiencd this? The network adapter is nVidia MCP55 and it is detected during the boot.

[562 byte] By [pkorpelaa] at [2007-11-27 4:38:40]

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I got it finally working. I have to keep the workstation unpowered for couple of minutes before booting to other OSs. What an earth Windows is doing to NIC?

pkorpelaa at 2007-7-12 9:49:08 >

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> What an earth Windows is doing to NIC?

... or to the DHCP server ...?

To ensure that the problem is not the combination Windows-DHCP Server I would assign a fixed (non-DHCP) address to the NIC under Linux and Solaris (later I would switch back to DHCP).

Another thing I would do is when the problem occurs I would use "snoop" to sniff the data going over the network card (you may use "ethereal" to visualize your "snoop" results but do not use "ethereal" on Solaris to capture packets - it does not work correctly).

Martin

Martin_Rosenaua at 2007-7-12 9:49:08 >

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