Double Config. Wireless and Dial-Up

Both wireless high speed (via Rogers brand modem with
built-in antenna) and telephone Dial-Up work normally on
this Win98SE PC -- with one anomaly.

After working in Linux (where both wireless and dial-up
are also configured), when I reboot Windows the wireless
system fails to connect (Mozilla Firefox reports no signal
but if I once connect via Dial-Up in Windows (and disconnect)
wireless Internet then works OK (with no changes in configuration.)

Can I reconfigure so as to avoid this? The inconvenience
lasts no more than seconds but surely there ought to be
a way of configuring both devices to avoid this.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)




Don Phillipson

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| Both wireless high speed (via Rogers brand modem with
| built-in antenna) and telephone Dial-Up work normally on
| this Win98SE PC -- with one anomaly.
|
| After working in Linux (where both wireless and dial-up
| are also configured), when I reboot Windows the wireless
| system fails to connect (Mozilla Firefox reports no signal
| but if I once connect via Dial-Up in Windows (and disconnect)
| wireless Internet then works OK (with no changes in configuration.)
|
| Can I reconfigure so as to avoid this? The inconvenience
| lasts no more than seconds but surely there ought to be
| a way of configuring both devices to avoid this.
|
| --
| Don Phillipson
| Carlsbad Springs
| (Ottawa, Canada)
|
|

Hey Don,
Seems your issue mirrors an issue I noted years ago when dual booting Linux
and 9X with analog modems.
For some reason after using Linux, the modem [an old USR] had to be *reset*
with the proper Windows settings/string. I traced that old problem to the
*driver level* used in Windows verses the *hardware level* [kernel mode]
used in Linux. If I remember correctly, the fix I used was a modem hardware
reset when shutting down Linux [though it may have been in Windows Startup
[more likely], put that to failing memory and newer Linux aspects].

Now how this would relate to wireless brings a few questions for thought
[presuming the wireless is not actually electrically shutdown and noting it
does have a *memory*].
Has Linux somehow assigned a status of *secondary* OR changed the network
addressing to/in the wireless [IP/DNS/etc]?
Has Linux somehow assigned a *metric* to the interfaces in the wireless?
Has Linux placed a network metric within the router [if used]?

Perhaps something as simple as a network adapter *reset* flushing/resetting
IP/DNS/etc in a Startup bat or other, might accomplish the deed.

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