eth0 not working on remote machine (outch!)

[Stefan Langerman <lfalse@cereal.rutgers.edu>]

Hello everyone,

I'm in deep trouble: Yesterday, I updated my remote server, which
is sitting in Belgium (I'm in NJ,USA), using dselect. My box is
a P100 running potato. I then rebooted, and nothing came up!

This morning I called someone over there, who told me the 
machine boots, but says eth0 is not working. My friend in 
Belgium knows almost nothing about Linux, so I can't ask him to
fix this, and I can't do anything, since I can't even telnet the 
thing. So I have several questions:

- Is anyone aware of problems with network cards introduced 
  by new updates in potato (I didn't really bother to check
  while the update was being made, but I think it updated 
  the kernel). And how to fix those...

- I figure the only solution (besides taking the plane to Belgium)
  would be to send a disk to my friend, with a working kernel,
  and a telnetd, and ask him to boot the floppy, and then try 
  fixing the thing from here. Does anyone know how I can 
  find/make such a floppy?

- Any other solutions you can think of?

Thanks in advance, 

Stefan.