Hi All I purchased a new machine recently and liked it that much I purchased a slightly different one but the motherboards appear to be the same. Just for completeness they are shuttles the K45 and K48. The two machines are called orchid and magnolia. I'm writing this email from orchid and other than a reboot problem I'm very happy with her. But whatever I attempt I can't get maggies ethernet port to work. Reading around I found that someone had asked for output from ethtool. So I installed this on both machines and could see strate away that maggies speed and duplex settings are null. (See below). Both machines have debian Lenny kernel 2.6.26-2-686. Orchid from a new install but maggie has been upgraded over several years. Maggie seems to remap the ethernet device to eth1 via udev for some reason. How can I undo this? What do I need to do to kick this thing into life? Whoops I forgot the output from lspci for magnolia. But they are the same rev 12. orchid:~# lspci | grep Ethernet 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8056 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 12) magnolia:~# ethtool -i eth1 driver: sky2 version: 1.21 firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 orchid:~# ethtool -i eth0 driver: sky2 version: 1.21 firmware-version: N/A bus-info: 0000:02:00.0 magnolia:~# dmesg | grep eth1 [ 1.538612] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1 [ 16.637768] sky2 eth1: enabling interface [ 88.345542] ADDRCONF(NETDEV_UP): eth1: link is not ready orchid:~# dmesg | grep eth0 [ 1.221865] sky2 eth0: addr 00:30:1b:bd:82:a8 [ 11.195644] sky2 eth0: enabling interface [ 12.756760] sky2 eth0: Link is up at 100 Mbps, full duplex, flow control rx [ 34.038696] eth0: no IPv6 routers present magnolia:~# ethtool eth1 Settings for eth1: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: Unknown! (65535) Duplex: Unknown! (255) Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: no orchid:~# ethtool eth0 Settings for eth0: Supported ports: [ TP ] Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Supports auto-negotiation: Yes Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full 100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full 1000baseT/Half 1000baseT/Full Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes Speed: 100Mb/s Duplex: Full Port: Twisted Pair PHYAD: 0 Transceiver: internal Auto-negotiation: on Supports Wake-on: pg Wake-on: d Current message level: 0x000000ff (255) Link detected: yes -- Gena M0EBP http://ready2golinux.com