Hi What do you get when you do a "lsmod"? Is your network card module listed? Did you build support for your card into your kernel? Have you looked at /etc/network/interfaces? Gena >Hi all. I finally got my kernel to boot, and after doing a make = >oldconfig and editing .config to answer y to tulip support, the kernel = >boots. It probes my ethernet card and calls it eth0. It also displays = >its mac address and finds it on irq 10. However, the problem is that = >when I check dev to make sure eth0 is present, it isn't there. Why would = >the device not be initialized into a device file if it was probed = >successfully? This doesn't really make sense to me, considering that = >everything went ok. And naturally, I couldn't do ifconfig dhcp because = >it didn't find the network interface? How could I go about fixing this = >problem? Thanks in advance!=20 > > >_________________________________________________________ >Do You Yahoo!? >Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > >_______________________________________________ >Speakup mailing list >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup