> About the IP configuration being lost, I have tracked the problem to the > new NetworkManager program. > > I deactivated it, and now everything is normal.... I've played with NetworkManager and it doesn't seem to be able to handle my wired connection at all. That aside, even with it disabled, if I connect my laptop to our LAN with selinux running I can't get an IP address. I'm not sure if its something with my tg3 network card or the fact that the DHCP server is Windows 2003SP1 (probably the windows component in general). Since I changed my grub config from selinux=0 to enforcing=0 I've seen alot of the avc deny statements in the messages file with some mentions of dhclient and ping. I can attach some if they are of interest to people. The only thing I can think of that may cause problems (not sure if it would though) is that I'm using a slightly old kernel as the newer ipw2200 works much better for me and was rolled back in some of the later kernels. Pete