interesting ubuntu amd discovery

[Jude DaShiell]

The amd machine I purchased has its ethernet socket on the motherboard 
along with its sound card function.  Several versions of Linux I used on 
that machine could find the motherboard ethernet but none until ubuntu 
could get a dhcp address since dhclient and dhcpcd couldn't hndle that 
kind of ethernet connection.  With ubuntu though using pump to bring up 
the internet connection 6.04 and 6.10 both were successful getting out 
onto the internet and ran firefox.  The gnopernicus wouldn't work on 6.04 
but does talk as a result of the upgrade to 6.10 that was done too. 
Installing standard ethernet cards into that AMD machine didn't get me any 
kind of internet connections either.