#7785 HIGH 8.2.0 (: unreliable ethernet connection

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#7785: unreliable ethernet connection
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 Reporter:  AlbertCahalan  |         Owner:                      
     Type:  defect         |        Status:  new                 
 Priority:  high           |     Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)
Component:  not assigned   |       Version:  not specified       
 Keywords:                 |   Next_action:  never set           
 Verified:  0              |     Blockedby:                      
 Blocking:                 |  
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 (joyride 2241, from August 2008)

 The laptop has a tendency to:

 1. pick a bogus IP address

 2. choose wireless, despite having a USB ethernet device

 I wouldn't have plugged in an ethernet device just for decoration.
 Obviously I expect to use it. If I wanted wireless, I'd have not
 plugged in the ethernet device. If the laptop sees an ethernet
 device, then there is only one reasonable assumption: the user
 expects to use ethernet.

 Picking a bogus IP address is never useful. It just gets in the
 way of getting a real one. I suspect that this happens when the
 DHCP server is slow to respond. Once I get the bogus address, there
 is no reasonable way to recover. I can cut power to the laptop,
 forcing things to start over, but that is not reasonable.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/7785>
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