to fix your address on eth0, you can do ifdown eth0 ip link set address $(ethtool -P eth0 | sed -e 's/Permanent address: //;') dev eth0 ifup eth0 maybe, this can be useful for a while for someone... Problem: I just try to boot kernel 2.6.39 and the bad address is still there :(, will continue to analyse this tomorrow. -- Zito