Problem with network on Dell Latitude D620

[mortenmw]

I was not sure if I should post this question in the network or the laptop-forum, so I am going to try here :)

I have a Dell Latitude D620 which I have installed Fedora 7 on. The installation had no problems and everything is working except for one thing. When I boot Fedora I receive no error messages and everything seems fine. But when I start an application that depends on access to the network (Firefox, Thunderbird etc.) the network does not work.

The network device is activated and seems to be working. I have found a simple walk-around for the problem, by going into system-config-network and disabling and then re-enabling the device everything works perfectly. What should I do to make the network work without having to do this?

The networking device is a Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5752 card.

[stevea]

Did you originally config this device with the system-config-network or did you use NetworkManager ? I'd suggest the latter but it should work either way.

So get the network in the 'broken' state and get the output of these commands:
ip addr
ip route
then fix the interface and repeat the commands. Post the before and after output.