Re: Network failures with ACPI enabled (kernel 2.4, 2.6) PROBLEM FOUND!!!!!!

Michael Guntsche
2003-12-30T23:17:16Z

On Tue, 30 Dec 2003 17:36:14 -0500
"Brown, Len" <len.brown-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> The BIOS' AML may not be well coordinated with the CMOS setting
> for enabling/disabling the device.
>
> It is interesting that Windows XP works either way.
> Could be that Linux has an ACPI bug that XP does not have,
> or that the BIOS happens to work with XP's implementation
> and not Linux's implementation.
>

Is there a way to see what the change in the CMOS does to ACPI?
What puzzles me is that with the parport disabled outgoing traffic
still works. It would make more sense if the network didn't work at all.

Michael