Christian Eyrich wrote: >> dpkg-reconfigure etherconf > > It asked me some questions which I answered - nice. > But it didn't change the /etc/network/interfaces I know that using dpkg-reconfigure to reconfigure X doesn't work if you've edited the X config file by hand. Perhaps the same is true in this case as well. If so, you could try renaming the interfaces file and running dpkg-reconfigure again. Adam