I am having an issue with installing 8.1 with a Supermicro motherboard P4DPE-Q rev 2.0 and its onboard and pci-64bit intel Ethernet cards. The install goes great, I go to configure the card (or port) 'up' and it says it comes up. I see that the link is seen as 100/Full in the kernel ring buffer it claims that it is up 100/Full. However no traffic will pass properly. The dhcp server sees the request (if configured for dhcp) and gives an offer, but the system does not see any of that traffic. If the interface is configured up as a static, it can ping itself but nothing else on the net. (I did not verify that remote machines see the ping, but I assume they do.) This problem also occurred with a 64-bit pci bus version of the Intel Pro 1000MT Server adapter. Install with SuSE 8.0 and there are no issues with the ports. Any ideas as to what the issue may be? I have seen a couple other people post to other lists without seeing any answers. I can live with 8.0 on these machines, but I would like to migrate all my new machines (of each of the 6 types I deploy) to the same distribution version. I will pull one of these machines from the lab in a couple weeks and will be able to test if anyone has a 'fix' Thanks. -- Jeff Graham Manager IT (408) 376-1350 Silverback Systems 695 Campbell Technology Parkway, Suite 150 Campbell, CA 95008