On Sunday 30 June 2002 11:03 am, ccox at linuxsnob.com wrote:
> well, I'm thinking that's might be an  honest bug.  have you had
> any other distros on that hardware?, or another nic you could configure to
> verify whether or not the problem is a part of the nic driver?

Being a laptop, I dont have any other hardware to try.  Nor do I want to just 
start installing whatever on it. It is a Xrocom 10/100 + Modem (from Dell).

> 	I just had another thought, is that nic a pcmcia device?  if it
> is, you might need to do a restart of some of the pcmcia modules to get it
> to kick over.

Hmm.. Interesting thought.  I will have to give that  a try next time.  But I 
seem to remember having this same problem on a desktop pc at work once.  I 
dont recall what the solution there was.  

> 	I'm just shooting from the hip, I don't have 7.3 on anything as of
> yet. so if anyone else can shed some light on this, you might be more help
> than me at this point.
>

Does anyone run a version of the ISC DHCP client on a network without a DHCP 
server? (like a roaming laptop)  If there is a version that does work, I may 
just track down that version and see if it makes a difference.

Jay