On Tue, 2006-05-09 at 19:37 -0400, Annette T Robart wrote: > > It is on automatic. It is getting the dns address and connecting to the > Internet. It is just "extremely" slow. All other machines are connecting > fine. It can take 3-5 minutes to load a page. I got Fedora loaded on another > Desktop and that connects fine, it's just this laptop that is fighting me! I > think I'll just give up on it. > For what it is worth - I use an IBM cardbus card for ethernet, and it works just peachy. I also have one that uses the tulip driver (it's a Linksys - but I don't think they make this card anymore) that also just works peachy. You may be able to find an IBM cardbus card on eBay for not too much.