[PLUG] Laptop ethernet timeout

["W. Chris Shank" <chris.shank@acetechgroup.com>]

I recently installed Mandrake 9.1 PPC on my iBook (OS X just turned out to
be too much eye candy and not enough - just do it). So far I'm extremely
pleased with it. I still have OS X on it and was very impressed with MOL.
One bothersome area is the networking, particulrily the ethernet startup
timeout on the wired adapter. If I boot the unit without being on the lan
- it waits a very long time and then assigns some weird IP (don't recall
the exact one). Also - if I sleep it -and unplug from the network and then
unsleep from some toher location, it takes a while to figure out it's not
connected - and doesn't automatically route to eth1 is there is a wireless
lan.

Has anyone encountered this and have you overcome? Got any helpful scripts
that you run?

Thanks

Chris


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