[PLUG] laptops and Debian

["Trevor Martin" <tjmartin42@hotmail.com>]

I seem to be having some real problems with running Debian on my laptop.
Mandrake and Slackware ran fine on it , but when i installed debian (potato) 
my ethernet card stopped working. Its kind of strange , but
the pc card (a linksys 10/100 pcmcia card) will just stop responding
and the only way to "wake it up" is to execute "/etc/init.d/networking
restart"

Whats even stranger is that if i type "route" to list my routing table
it will hang for about 10 seconds before showing the default route
which is 192.168.0.1

Just to be sure that it wasn't the hardware, i partitioned the HD and
installed win98. No probs whatsoever.

Just to be sure that the networking was configured correctly , I
installed linuxconf and reconfigured everything .... same problem.

Anyone have any idea's as to why this is happening ?

  -Trevor
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