Network issues with dual boot PC

[KC2OTE]

Hello all,

My machine is currently setup to dual boot XP and FC5. Fedora works fine until I shut it down and boot XP. Once I boot XP and try to reboot into FC5, the network card no longer gets a DHCP address. There is a physical connection because I can go back into XP and it works fine but no matter what I do, I cannot get TCP/IP to work within Fedora now.

I have released the DHCP lease on the router and have even tried configuring a static IP address but even static I cannot ping the router. When setup for DHCP, the router does not even see that FC5 is trying to obtain a lease.

I'm sure that there is a simple fix for this but I am unable to find it. I tried clearing the static IP boxes but that didn't help at all. I have unbound eth0 from the HW address (which FC5 reports to be the same that the DHCP server gives a lease to when I boot XP) but have had no luck with it.

If anyone can help me, I would greatly apreciate it.

Thank you.

[jhetrick62]

So when this happens, ipconfig has no inet address at all? How about a gateway address? It sounds more like a router issue to me. The network card should in no way be effected by XP although the router might be confused as to why there is another request from the same MAC address, although I have no problem switching back and forth.

Can you get static IP to work ever? Again, the router should just handle that request and comply.

Jeff

[KC2OTE]

So when this happens, ipconfig has no inet address at all? How about a gateway address? It sounds more like a router issue to me. The network card should in no way be effected by XP although the router might be confused as to why there is another request from the same MAC address, although I have no problem switching back and forth.

Can you get static IP to work ever? Again, the router should just handle that request and comply.

Jeff

ipconfig does have an address on the XP machine but ifconfig does not. No addresses of any kind on the linux machine.

I ended up getting it working by unplugging the power from the PC for a minute so the NIC could forget whatever XP did to it and it worked just fine. I don't know why it happens, but There's got to be some other way to accomplish it.

Regarding the router, I set the lease to expire after one minute and even manually deleted the lease from the DHCP list and neither helped at all. Setting a static address does not resolve the issue after I boot XP.

[jhetrick62]

Very strange. I re-boot my dual -boot machine several times daily w/o a problem.

[gavinw6662]

please show us your network card configuration --

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

[KC2OTE]

It doesn't seem to make any sense to me either but I figure that since it's an onboard NIC in a machine made to run Windows, there's probably something in the windows driver that writes to the volatile memory on the card and causes my issue.

Here's my configuration file:
# nVidia Corporation MCP51 Ethernet Controller
DEVICE=eth0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
DHCP_HOSTNAME=gojira
USERCTL=no
IPV6INIT=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
ONBOOT=yes