Re: wireless network adapter not working

[George N. White III]

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024 at 6:42 PM Barry  wrote:
> > On 5 Nov 2024, at 22:23, Peter Lesterhuis
>
> wrote:
> > Although this sounded like magic to me I couldn't resist giving it a try.
>
> On a reboot the device may not be fully reset.
> Windows may have set modes on devices that breaks the linux driver.
>
> When you do a cold boot, power off and back on, that cannot happen.

Many systems intended for use by large enterprises do load  minimal network
drivers to support PXE netboot and Wake-on-(Wired-)Lan so IT can push
updates
during off hours.  In some cases vendor firmware updates are needed to
avoid
breaking linux, or you may be able to disable PXE.