Support Biostar TF7025-M2 TF7050 ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=3304153 >I found that my network functionality was broken. The DHCP wouldn't work and I tracked it down to the hardware link being down. >The fix for this was for me to boot into XP and go into the Device Manager. I went into the properties of the network card and into the advanced tab. >Enable the Wake-on-lan setting. Hypothesis: I think XP was disabling the link chip on power down and turning it back on on startup, but kubuntu never turns it on.