Hello again. Okay I got the whole kernel thing squared away. Now I have one last and I hope easy and stupid Debian configuration question. Where do I put the information about configuring two network cards for the irq/io addresses? I can't seem to find the place where it works. I tried putting it in /etc/modutils/ne (with a line 'options ne irq=10,9 io=0x300,0x2c0') but that didn't seem to work. I don't think the driver is compiled into the module as rmmod showed ne to be busy. I know the configuration works, because I ifdown'd on the active card, rmmod for the module, then insmod ne.0 irq=10,9 io=0x300,0x2c0, ifup eth0 eth1 and there they are. Am I looking in the wrong place? Is it the wrong command? (not options, but something else??) Thanks for any help. - Dave "Stop him before he hurts himself" Kleist -- Dave Kleist dkleist at acm.org "The covers of this book are too far apart." - Ambrose Bierce