The tulip.c driver included in the 2.2.18 kernel sources is obsolete and does not work with the very popular Linksys Ethernet 10/100 PCI card. On my system it yields repeated messages in the system log: 21140 transmit timed out, status ffffff Fortunately a newer version is available that works perfectly with this card; all that's needed is to update the version now in the kernel sources. The version in 2.2.18 is 0.91g, dated 7/16/99; the newer version is 0.92, dated 4/17/2000. The newer version can be gotten from http://www.scyld.com/network/tulip.html. I believe that for correct operation, the card also requires the pci-scan module. Paul Abrahams - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org