Package: general Severity: important When the cmos battery is removed and power unplugged and the system booted . I press f2(load defaults) in the cmos screen and the syetm boots very slowly and detects my lan card. i.e ifconfig -a lists eth0. But after this if I shut down the computer and start again or even restart it , the network card is not detected . when the network card goes undetected even if I boot into windows it remains undetected in windows also. To make the netowrk card appear again I need to rerun the procedure of removing the batters and unplugging power cable.
It seems like when shutting down the system the OS is setting some flag or something like that in the bios which makes the network card go undetected. I have tried this in debian etch , lenny and sidux. The results are the same irrespective of the debian distribution. havent checked it with other distributions yet. Also about booting up , when I restart or shutdown and start the computer it boots prettu fast , but when I clear the bios and boot it takes nearly 3 - 5 minutes to boot. -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.22.3-rc1-slh-smp-2 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
