> 3 When starting up (Mandrake) the startup hangs on > "bringing up interface ethos" - spends time looking or > doing whatever its doing and eventually "fails". Is there > anything that is able to be done not to have to sit > through this each time?
I'll take the easy one, without checking the other replies in this thread :-) eth0 is the network outlet on your laptop. eth0 = ethernet 0. If you had two network outlets then the second one would be eth1. If your laptop does not have a network (LAN) cable plugged into it then it will "fail". If it still fails when you _are_ plugged into a LAN, then it may be because there is no DHCP server on your LAN segment. Yuri
