Hi All, I have SuSE 8.0 with stock kernel running on 7 Dell 1650 Poweredge 1U's with dual onboard Intel 10/100/1000 Copper NIC's, and the driver supplied by intel is the e1000.o (the alias for eth0 in modules.conf is): alias eth0 e1000 now, I want to add parameters so that the NIC is set to 100mbit/sec and Full Duplex, and in reading the documentation on intel's site, the paramters I need are Duplex=2,Speed=100 would modifying the alias eth0 e1000 to look like this: alias eth0 e1000 Duplex=2,Speed=100 in /etc/modules.conf accomplish what I want at system boot up, since I am not running a custom kernel on these machines, and the e1000 driver hasn't made it into the 2.4.18 stock kernel (or 2.4.19 for that matter)? The reason i'm doing this is to eliminate the use of auto-sensing by a cisco 3550/2950 switches at a facility, people are of the opinion that both sides should be set to 100mbit/sec FDX -Bill