vista dual boot disables NAT

[Tom Bradley]

I setup an NTFS partition for Windows Vista Ultimate 64 and I've tried several times to dual boot from it. I can install it the first time, but when I restart into Vista it freezes. When I restart the computer into Ubuntu or Linux Mint based on Ubuntu 10.04 the NAT is so completely disabled that it doesn't light up when I plug it in. Linux cannot enable the network card on my Asus M3A motherboard no matter what I do UNTIL I pull the battery out of my motherboard for a few seconds and restart. Then it's fine.

Needless to say, I'm getting rid of Vista, but I fear that this sort of suspicious Microsoft behavior must be frightening off countless new Linux users.

[Book 'em Dano (heymrdjd)]

I would experience something similar when dual booting between XP and Karmic. If I was using XP and if the computer went into hibernation, and then I booted Karmic, the ethernet card would be unresponsive and would not establish an Internet connection. To resolve this, I would to restart into XP and shutdown XP correctly and completely, then boot into Karmic in order to use the ethernet card.

[Victor Vargas (kamus)]

Tom, have you tried to reproduce this issue using latest release of Ubuntu Maverick?

[Tom Bradley (tomofpittsburgh)]

On 11/11/2010 08:05 AM, Kamus wrote:
> Tom, have you tried to reproduce this issue using latest release of
> Ubuntu Maverick?
>
> ** Package changed: ubuntu => linux (Ubuntu)
>
> ** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
>
No, I have not. I removed the partition and went with a stand-alone
Linux Mint system. It seems to me that it was more of a firmware issue,
but if anybody can find a fix for it, it's the Ubuntu Community.

[Jeremy Foshee (jeremyfoshee)]

This bug report was marked as Incomplete and has not had any updated comments for quite some time. As a result this bug is being closed. Please reopen if this is still an issue in the current Ubuntu development release http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/ . Also, please be sure to provide any requested information that may have been missing. To reopen the bug, click on the current status under the Status column and change the status back to "New". Thanks.

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