I have not argued the technical pros and cons of arcnet. I have merely stated that since you are the first person reporting the OOPS, it is indicative that not many people are testing arcnet in the 2.6.x kernel. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html