Would you recommend the product? yes | Price you paid?: None indicated | Rating: 7
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Kernel (uname -r):
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2.6.4-54.5-default
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Distribution:
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SuSe 9.1
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The only beef I have with this NC8000 laptop is with the internal NIC. The Broadcom device does not (or cannot!) get an IP address when using dhcp on boot-up. For some reason, the IP address is only picked up *after* the boot sequence has finished. To make matters worse, the NIC **NEVER** succeeds in getting an IP address when I connect to my cable modem. The investigation continues!
The correct driver (tg3) was picked up and installed by YaST2 upon first-time installation, and apparently (from my exhaustive research) there should not be any problem using the tg3 driver.
Please note that I did not have trouble getting an IP address when I connected the NIC to an enterprise LAN.
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