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Question #76447 on Ubuntu changed:
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george_rutkay gave more information on the question:
Ok, it's 10:00 now, I'm home from work and had supper. Now the computer
is running ok, no problems with the ethernet card all day, so i don't
know how valid this will be (I guess this test is supposed to run when
the computer is exhibiting problems.....but it's not a predictable
thing).

Here are the results of the test:

 * Restarting Hardware abstraction layer hald                            [ OK ] 
 * Deconfiguring network interfaces...                                          Ignoring unknown interface eth0=eth0.
                                                                         [ OK ]
 * Configuring network interfaces...                                     [ OK ] 
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.1.1
Copyright 2004-2008 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:11:11:eb:0b:55
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:11:11:eb:0b:55
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPOFFER of 192.168.2.3 from 192.168.2.1
DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.2.3 on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
DHCPACK of 192.168.2.3 from 192.168.2.1
 * Reloading /etc/samba/smb.conf smbd only
   ...done.
bound to 192.168.2.3 -- renewal in 900292319 seconds.


Now, you see, my wife will not be able to do this, don't even think she can try it because she's not comfortable with technology in general, and certainly not with computers. She leaves all of this technical mumbo-jumbo to me and of course when I'm at work and she needs to check the bank account on-line and the computer isn't connecting, I usually get a phone call interrupting me at work, something my boss isn't happy about.

So you see, the root remains to keep the ethernet card initialized
properly from startup on and not impliment some temporary command-line
patch which a non-technical person cannot implement without guaranteed
mistakes and further frustration.

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