That was actually part of the problem :-) Everything is working peachy-keen now. Thanks to everyone for your help! -Jeremy On Tuesday 06 August 2002 09:58 am, Christians, Daniel wrote: > hi jeremy, > > i'm not sure if this will fix your problem, but the iname array is > declared to hold only 4 chars and the strcpy will copy 5 chars into > it, potentially overwriting something important. the 5th char is the > null byte. > > > strcpy(iname, "eth0"); > > peace, > > dan -- ---------------------------- Jeremy C. Andrus http://www.jeremya.com/ ---------------------------- -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/