Thank you Martin & Donald. This problem was linked to the Netwrok and SCSI cards sharing the same IRQ. This was on a Gateway G6-200 The solution to this problem is to juggle the PCI cards until it works! Tony -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to templin@bucknell.edu .