Ubuntu only gets IP address by booting windows first.

Daravon · 12-31-2008, 12:39 PM

I have a DSL modem behind a Linksys wrt54g router. If I boot ubuntu, it never gets an IP address or anything. If I boot Vista, the network works. So then if I switch back, it works in ubuntu, like it is now. It has repeated this behavior several times. Vista must be doing some kind of configurating that 'lasts' long enough to boot back into linux and have it work. Any ideas what is going on?

farslayer · 12-31-2008, 12:59 PM

is this the same issue you are troubleshooting in this thread ?

bug in driver for r8169
http://adam.rosi-kessel.org/weblog/2...k-down-problem

don't kniow what kernel you are running but this bug was fixed in 2.6.26
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/10/160
http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/10/448

pixellany · 12-31-2008, 02:00 PM

Yes--it appears to be the same issue--I will report the threads for merging

Daravon;
Please keep the discussion in the other thread.

Daravon · 12-31-2008, 03:34 PM

OK; I made this thread because the issue 'turned into' a networking problem. I had thought it was hardware and then it looked like it was my dsl and now I guess it's hardware again.