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I have an Acer Aspire 1200 series laptop, installed mandrake Linux 10.0,
worked fine. Connected to the internet through my desktop (running Windows
XP Pro internet connection sharing) fine. However after rebooting the
Ethernet adapter failed to initialise so I cannot get a network connection.

Reboot the same laptop in windows XP home edition and the connection works
fine.

Any ideas?

I have already tried V9.2 and that hung when attempting to initialise
PCMCIA, disabling PCMCIA meant the system booted but again network drivers
failed to initialise.

I reinstalled the OS and the network connection worked fine for a day .. and
then the same problem! Frustrating!

Thanks very much for any help in advance folks,

Julian Hirst