> what do you get from > dmesg | grep -i eth 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1000, 00:40:f4:35:60:e0, IRQ 11 eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' It might be of interest that I used mondo/mindi to create and restore the backup. My installation was recently upgraded from Sarge. R.