[H-GEN] Onboard network cards

[Alex Delaforce]

Hello all,
Can you advise me if an intel motherboard with onboard LAN is a problem
for Linux (SUSE 8.1)
During the boot up I get
"No IP address yet     backgrounding"
 
The network doesn't connect. Eth 0 was failing but I increased the wait
time for eth0 to 20 seconds. This seemed to help the first time but then
changed from failing to backgrounding. 
 
Where should I be looking.  Should I forget the onboard NIC and get a
PCI card instead? All help gratefully recieved
Regards -the novice
Alex Delaforce
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