> After further investigations, I think the problem is
> definitely with the Lenovo R61i notebook (I believe
> "i" refers to the Intel chipset).  I am not going
> into the details, but I have tried a couple of Linux
> distros, both experienced some kind of problems.  For
> some reason, this machine needs to be turned off for
> at least a few minutes before I can re-use the
> ethernet.  (Thou no problem with Vista.)
> 
> Funny thing is, my mother has been running Solaris
> (10u3 --> 10u4) on this machine for about one year
> (this was given to her as her 90th birthday present),
> and never had any problem.  This says a lot about the
> Solaris OS (& should serve as a great testimony as to
> why it should be more widely adopted by the general
> public).  Had there been any problem that needed a
> reboot, this problem would have been discovered.
> Because there had never been a need for reboot, this
>  problem never surfaced.

Dhcp client did work on and off there were several code changes and putbacks, 
it had worked with Time Warners Cable modem, and DSL modem in between these 
versions of snv_b55 to snv_b61 and one of the 10u4 beta's with a few other 
caviate's

http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=66966𐖖 and 
http://www.opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=149926𤦦

Here are some bugid submitted:

6355747,  6460148  , 6486630  , 6508976   6295541  , 5105194  , 4867934

Plus loghost does not get inserted into the hosts.

Also this goes back as far as 4773326 and even 2060734 in different attempts to 
address the issue and it efects sparc systems as well see 6641824 with 
dhcpconfig on bugid 6633481

I can only this can be reviewed and hope a solution can be found!
 
 
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