Ethernet card not recognized in xp after driver installed in red hat?
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Ethernet card not recognized in xp after driver installed in red hat?
I recently installed Red Hat 9.0 on my Dell Inspiron 8500. I set up a dual boot for XP Profession since I am new to Linux and didn't want to get rid of Windows completely before knowing what I was doing and there are various things I still need to do with Windows. Anyway, my first problem was that my integrated Broadcom 440x 10/100 NIC ethernet card wasn't working in Linux. I went and found a driver, figured out how to install RPMs, and got it working great. But there was a new problem... the ethernet card was no longer working under XP!! XP seems to think that the device is working correctly, but refuses to believe that it is connected. This problem had never occured until I installed the Red Hat driver, so I'm not sure what I can do to solve the problem. Is it possible to use the device in both operating systems? How can I go about configuring it properly to operate in both? Any help would be very much appreciated!
Strange problem.
The operating systems should not interfere with each other.
Only thing I could think of is if the driver did some updating of firmware or something similar to the NIC.
Probably not, but since we haven't found the problem we can't say. Can we?
My hardware knowledge is not that good. Hope someone else is catching on to this thread.
Re: Ethernet card not recognized in xp after driver installed in red hat?
It actually happened to me too (on a different machine and the same ethernet card), and I'm sure that the ethernet card istopped working under XP as soon as I was able to install the Linux driver.
Have you or somebody else sorted it out??
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Originally posted by Jawbreaker4Fs I recently installed Red Hat 9.0 on my Dell Inspiron 8500. I set up a dual boot for XP Profession since I am new to Linux and didn't want to get rid of Windows completely before knowing what I was doing and there are various things I still need to do with Windows. Anyway, my first problem was that my integrated Broadcom 440x 10/100 NIC ethernet card wasn't working in Linux. I went and found a driver, figured out how to install RPMs, and got it working great. But there was a new problem... the ethernet card was no longer working under XP!! XP seems to think that the device is working correctly, but refuses to believe that it is connected. This problem had never occured until I installed the Red Hat driver, so I'm not sure what I can do to solve the problem. Is it possible to use the device in both operating systems? How can I go about configuring it properly to operate in both? Any help would be very much appreciated!
hi
I am in the same situation with you
I have both XP and linux red hat 9.0 on my laptop inspiron 8500
I installed the driver for the ethernet card broadcom 440x and it worked fine for Linux
(check here " http://mailman.3ti.be/pipermail/clus...er/000084.html ")
however later then XP did not recognize the adapter
what I found out is the rpm file that Broadcom provided (which I downloaded from the following link " http://www.broadcom.com/drivers/downloaddrivers.php " ) does not provide double support for dual operating systems; my solution is to reboot (turn off and turn on again ) the system if I have to switch from one OS to other rather than restarting the machine
you may have to reconfigure the TCP/IP settings and others for the XP when you reboot the system;
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