How do I stop RH9 from shutting down my nic
 

I have an Asus A7V8X with an onboard Broadcom 4401 network card. I'm running Redhat 9, kernel 2.4.2-8 I believe... When I shutdown Redhat it also shuts off my network card, which is a problem because I also use WindowsXP(I know, but I'm slowly migrating to linux, hopefully I can one day rid myself of the MS Demons!) How can I get it to leave it on? And the other question is... Is there a file like the boot.ini for windows? And is there another one for the shutdown process as well?

Thanks a ton!

Martin Seidl
Asus A7V8X
AthlonXP 1700 @ 2.25 GHZ
1GB PC2100
240GB SATA Raid 0 Array
GeforceFX 5900SE
DVD +/- RW
RH9/WinXP Pro

:newbie:

i believe that all OS's are the same in that with a complete shutdown all hardware pheripherals are indeed powered off. However with linux you can have the option of several init run levels.

most linux distros come with either a grub or lilo boot option. So the file ur lookin for is prolly the grub.conf or lilo.conf

Isn't grub just the boot loader? Not the actualy conf file for start up and shut down processes?

Martin

linux and xp are using the same pc???

I had the same problem. But it is a windows XP problem.
Just update your winxp ethernet driver with the latest one from the broadcom
website (http://www.broadcom.com) and your problem should be solved.