I've had a quick look around but can't see why my network's not starting at boot, but works okay if I run 'sudo dhclient'... this is with 2.6.25-2-amd64 kernel from backports (build by debootstrap and then apt-get from backports)... I've copied over various /etc files such that I have a /etc/hosts and /etc/network/interfaces Pointers to what I've overlooked most welcome, thanks! Michael