Yep ... I was headed that direction too. It turns out that I don't have a bridging kernel module at all (that might do it). The word package threw me and I ran around making sure that I had the bridge-utils package installed (I did), but there's nothing for it to work with:) Thanks again for the help! smoyer On Wednesday 16 May 2007 09:43, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > Steven W. Moyer wrote: > >> Thanks Rich! > >> > >>> Do you get an error message? > >>> > >> > >> Yes ... it's "Failed to autostart network 'default': cannot create > >> bridge 'virbr0' : Package not installed" > > > > That's an odd one. > > So the particular error (Package not install / ENOPKG) seems to happen > when the kernel cannot request the bridge.ko kernel module to be loaded. > It seems like that either you don't have this module, or else > something in your /etc/modprobe.conf or /etc/modprobe.d/* is confusing > or preventing the module from being loaded. > > You might try: modprobe bridge.ko and see if it gives any errors. > > Rich. > -- Steven W. Moyer Principle Architect, Assurance Applications C-COR Solutions, LLC 60 Decibel Road State College, PA 16801 Office Phone: 814-231-4408 Front Desk: 814-238-2461 Cell Phone: 814-883-0391 Fax: 814-278-6540 E-mail: smoyer@xxxxxxxxx AIM: StevenWMoyer ICQ: 349680381 Jabber: smoyer1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx MSN: smoyer64 Yahoo: smoyer64