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On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 00:16, Scott Likens wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 16:04, Cameron Murdoch wrote:
> > On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 23:50, Scott Likens wrote:
> > > First, do you use DHCP?
> > 
> > No, not on this laptop.
> > 
> > > What are you doing exactly when it looses 'net or 'ip?
> > 
> > Nothing specific that I can see.  Sometimes nothing, sometimes an nfs
> > installworld, which was a bit dangerous seeing as the connection would
> > drop every few mins/secs.
> > 
> 
> Have you tried to replace the network card with a different one to see
> if you get the same results?
> 
> either the same type of card, or a different type?
> 
> It might be a weird bug in that card, or in the driver.

It is an integrated card, so no :)

As Warner said in another email, this card normally works flawlessly.  I
have many pci versions of it in other machines running current which do
not have this problem, so it could be hardware, but it seems a little
strange to me.

Cheers,

Cam