After offering the board to a guy with the stipulation Make the board load Linux nicely" and its yours The results are as follows: "added a PCI identifier string" to the eepro100 module and it works fine. The problem was that it was not running the Intel Ethernet Express module during install. This is on an Intel 815eaal motherboard with the onboard intel ethernet network interface. Does anyone know if this is fixed in newer or newest module or 2.4 kernel?