From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 8 19: 0:34 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.enteract.com (mail.enteract.com [207.229.143.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 153BA37B401 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 19:00:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from jamestown.enteract.com (24-148-57-234.na.21stcentury.net [24.148.57.234]) by mail.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA90599 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:00:16 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm@enteract.com) Received: by jamestown.enteract.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id VAA43277 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Feb 2001 21:00:02 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from jtm) From: James McNaughton Reply-To: jtm63@enteract.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [Fwd: Client DHCP connection to Internet] Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2001 20:51:59 -0600 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.28] Content-Type: text/plain References: <3A814DB4.1122CFA3@eng.ufl.edu> In-Reply-To: <3A814DB4.1122CFA3@eng.ufl.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01020821000201.42891@jamestown.enteract.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 07 Feb 2001, you wrote: > > I don't know if it has any relation to your problem, but I when > I switch my laptop from Windows 98SE to FreeBSD, I have to turn > the power off before booting FreeBSD or the network card won't > initialize properly. Do you see this problem if you power down > completely before booting FreeBSD? > > I suppose this is probably a flaw in FreeBSD. Maybe I should > submit a problem report for it. > > - Bob > I wouldn't be so quick to call it a flaw in FreeBSD. After I upgraded my desktop's Windows partition from 95 to ME, FreeBSD would hang at processor detection unless I power cycled my computer first. I tend to think of that as a Windows problem. It's a good suggestion though. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message