Author: Vic Date: To: hampshire Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Failed internet connection from Windows
ondualboot computer
> Linux does not address the network card the same way Windows does. A minor > change but remember a PC motherboard is a complex beast running at
> hundreds
> of MHz. Signal reflections (at High MHz frequencies an incorrect
> impedance
> match will create a signal reflection) which have no effect when run with
> one sequence of instructions may have an effect when it runs in another
> sequence of instructions.
Errr - no, that's cobblers.
PCI is a well-known entity. Data flows across the interface in a
prescribed and orderly fashion.
If the intricacies of the AC characteristics of the signals can cause the
device to fail, then you've got something seriously buggy - but it's
unlikely to be software-based, because the software just won't see that
level; that's hardware.
If one OS sees a NIC properly and another one doesn't, this is a software
problem. That might be a buggy driver, or (more likely) there is some
cruft getting in the way. Changing the type of card may cause a new driver
layer to be installed - thus bypassing said cruft. But all you're doing
there is working around the problem, rather than fixing it.
