When eth0 and eth1 activated?

Hello SuSE folkz, I was getting messages about failing firewall initialization. Here are the lines from boot.msg file: Master Resource Control: previous runlevel: N, switching to runlevel: 5 Starting Firewall Initialization: (phase 1 of 3) (run 2 of 3) Warning: interface eth1 is not active. Warning: interface eth0 is not active. No interfaces active! exiting ... SuSEfirewall: clearing rules now ... done failed Could somebody tell me please at what moment (runlevel) my ethernet cards are being activated? Do firewall services failed due to eth0/eth1 are not activated at this moment or there is another reason? Thanks in advance for any hints. Alex -- MS Windows users should be covered under the Americans with Disabilities Act