Hello, OK so the rule "If it ain't broke don't fix it," may have some basis in truth. Further to my previous weeping and wailing I have sort of sorted the problem. Zentara said and I agree that there is confusion in config.modules eth0 was loading ne.o instead of ne2k-pci.o. This is, I think caused by the initial set up program. Manually editing this file and setting options io= and irq= gets the right drivers loaded. However, the biggest Eureka goes to the discovery that a warm boot from Windoze really screws up the PCI bus. A clean DOS boot disk followed by a quicker loadlin saw the network card recognised and the drivers loaded, hooray! Unfortunately... two more problems now occur. 1. Pinging a Win98 box with it's IP number gets a "network unreachable..." 2. TKDesk in X now locks up the computer so bad I have to do a hard reset! I really want this Linux thing to work, I am attempting to set up a model Intranet to show my boss who quite rightly feels that Microsoft's bloatware offerings are overkill. One Linux box accessed by several Win 9x clients is a cost effective system; what am I doing wrong? Nick Bowling - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e