Hi. I also have a Dell laptop (Inspiron) with the Xircom Cardbus Ethernet + Modem. I haven't had many problems with linux. I'm assuming you've got a DSL or Cable connection if you want it to pick up the IP on startup. This I believe is a quirk with the Xircom cardbus, it work "fine" with Linux, but is not completely compatable. What I have to do with mine is run "ppoe -start" for DSL or "dhcpcd start" for cable after I start up. You might be able to fix this, but so far, this has been working for me. Peak Mail wrote: > I'm having several problems with Mandrake on my laptop. > I have a Xircom Cardbus Ethernet 100 + Modem card and since I've installed Mandrake >7.2 I can't get an ip address when booting into Linux. I had Red Hat 6.2 and it >worked fine then... Any thoughts? > Also, when shutting down Linux it's not unmounting my harddrive. Any thoughts on >this one? > > Thanks in advance, > Roger > > > _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
