Ina&Frank said: > Is modifying /etc/interfaces and /etc/ifstate sufficient? Where do I tell > the system what IRQ to use. And does that have to be another IRQ as eth0? > Or can they share it? realtek 8139 cards are genreally PCI, at least all of mine are, for me that means no specifying irq's anywhere. just set the new interface in /etc/network/interfaces and restart networking (/etc/init.d/networking restart) nate