Good to hear that it finally got fixed, then. I gave up on trying with it in about January. The rest of my gear works well under Linux (even my PhysX card thanks to being an AGEIA developer with access to the pre-release drivers and SDK), but having troubles with the NIC was a pain.
<br><br>I wasn't trying to blame the woes of the world on Windows. I'm old enough and experienced enough that that's far from true. And, really, I wasn't even saying it was _Windows'_ fault so much as it was nVidia's Windows driver.
<br><br>At any rate, if it's fixed, I'm glad to hear it. I'll probably give it a whirl again whenever distros start bearing the fixed code as part of the mainline.<br><br>-tony<br><br>On 6/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Collins Richey</b> <<a href="mailto:crichey@gmail.com">crichey@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 6/6/07, Tony McDowell <<a href="mailto:svet.am@gmail.com">svet.am@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>> ... with my<br>> 590SLI mainboard suffering from the weird "Windows tampering with the NIC"<br>> issue, I cannot easily dual-boot Windows and Linux on my desktop.
<br>><br><br>I'm curious about that "Window tampering with the NIC". My Gateway<br>GT4016 has a fairly recent nForce board, and I had a brief problem<br>with dual booting until the forcedeth driver caught up with the
<br>capabilities of the NIC. As I understand it, Window was doing fairly<br>normal stuff with the NIC but leaving it in a state that the forcedeth<br>driver could not reset until the driver was updated (about 2 weeks<br>after I encountered the problem). Power off was the temporary
<br>workaround. Not all problems can be blamed on Windows.<br><br>--<br>Collins Richey<br> If you fill your heart with regrets of yesterday and the worries<br> of tomorrow, you have no today to be thankful for.<br>
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