[64studio-devel] Problems with the Distro

[Daniel James]

Hi Link,

> It's all
> good until I install and use the nForce ethernet drivers from within
> Windows. After you boot back into Linux, the initialization of eth0 fails.
> I have not discovered a solution to this

One bodge I heard was: shut down Windows, power off, remove the power 
cable for 15 seconds, re-attach it, boot into Linux. Sounds like voodoo, 
but apparently it works for some people. I guess the cold boot causes 
the MAC address to be reset.

Perhaps it's the Windows driver that is screwing up the MAC address 
stored in the BIOS, rather than a hardware bug as such.

Another advantage to using a standard Ethernet card instead of the 
built-in chipset is that you can move it to a lower priority slot on the 
motherboard than the audio interface card. It seems that boards designed 
for server use (e.g. Dual Opteron) put the on-board Ethernet on the 
highest priority interrupt, and that's not always easy to change. It 
makes perfect sense for a headless server in a datacentre, but it's not 
so great for an audio workstation.

Cheers!

Daniel