Richard Neill wrote: > Dear All, > > This is weird. My (previously working) ethernet port on the laptop keeps > dropping out. > Even weirder: I can replicate the problem under Knoppix as well as Mandrake. But when I try an old version of Knoppix, (with a 2.4 kernel instead of 2.6), the problem goes away. [At least, it has been pinging for an hour so far] Any ideas? I'm rather puzzled! Richard