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

Nate Lawson
2003-12-31T23:02:13Z

On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Michael Guntsche wrote:
> 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.

Only incoming packets generate an interrupt.

-Nate