Hi, In the past I tried to install the embedded DIGITAL 21143 Ethernetcontroller At the moment Debian etch is installed. Recently I got an old Intel Box with an DIGITAL 21140 PCI Ethernetcontroller and was surprised to find a working network with a 2.6.22 kernel. But the PCI Board did not work in the Alpha machine !? Reactivating an old NT 4.0 Alpha harddisk the embedded 21143 Ethernet Controller performed without any problems. So I think the hardware should be without any failure. Both drivers - the Tulip and the DE4x3 - were tried with various 2.6.xx kernels. The "ifconfig" command shows an active network environment but it fails to work. The DE4x3 driver gives no error messages. The Tulip driver gives periodically a "network down" and "network up" status. If this controller works on an Intel system it should work also on Alpha ? Are there any working DIGITAL 21143 controllers on Alpha machines ? Are any special parameters necessary ? Thanks, Ian |