I'm still investigating on my network problem. In my last mail I wrote that the problem seems to be in boot sequence between "network" and "pcmcia". Well, now I've discovered that after boot, if I do: ==== luna:/home/ste # ifconfig lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) ==== then, if I do: ==== luna:/home/ste # modprobe 8139too ==== after few seconds, doing: ==== luna:/home/ste # ifconfig eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:6A:2C:2D inet addr:192.168.0.2 Bcast:192.168.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:fe6a:2c2d/64 Scope:Link UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:10 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:623 (623.0 b) TX bytes:1226 (1.1 Kb) Interrupt:9 Base address:0x9000 lo Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) TX bytes:2608 (2.5 Kb) ==== And all works fine! Please, I feel really near to solution. The last step is to configure the system to automatically load the 8139too driver. I've tryed to put it in the kernel modules to load at boot. It doesn't work because the pcmcia card is "hotplugged" after that the kern-modules are loaded. Why hotplug doesn't load automatically the correct module? Where is my error? Stefano