Ah, this sounds promising. Apparently Windows doesn't shut down an eepro100 network card properly when warm rebooting, according to Donald Becker, which sounds like the cause of my earlier problem. The pci-config program should be my solution here. Off to try that out.
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Naturally, of course, all my good plans are bullshit. Hasn’t helped. I hate computers.
“If you don’t hate computers, you have never used one.”