OK guys, I got the bootstrapped systems eth0 to come up. Thanks for all the advice and suggestions. The step that got it going was to copy /etc/modules to /mnt/debinst/etc/modules, then add 'eepro100' to it. The curious thing is that the primary installation doesn't have an entry for 'eepro100' in /etc/modules. I'm wondering if there is a difference between the sarge net-install on the primary installation and the debootstrap sarge installation on /dev/sda2 regarding how they load modules. <slap> dmesg wasn't giving me any clues until I realized that menu.plist had / at sda2 and the bootstrap /etc/fstab had it on sda3. D'oh! Fixing that didn't give me eth0 but it did let me read see a complete dmesg. </slap> I've spent time wading through /etc/inittab and rc scripts trying to figure out how the primary installation loads the eepro100 modules to no avail. I'm including the end of dmesg for both installations below. I'm sure the difference will be obvious to one of you. Also, I also accidentally ran /etc/init.d/rcS when I meant to cat it, it gave some interesting output - 'Detecting hardware: e100 aic7xxx ide-scsi" Thanks again, Steve ----------------------------- dmesg from the primary installation: ... kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,3), internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-cdrom driver. hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,1), internal journal EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver - version 2.3.38-k1 Copyright (c) 2004 Intel Corporation e100: selftest OK. e100: eth0: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection Hardware receive checksums enabled cpu cycle saver enabled e100: selftest OK. e100: eth1: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Connection Hardware receive checksums enabled cpu cycle saver enabled scsi2 : SCSI host adapter emulation for IDE ATAPI devices eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at saw.sw.com.sg> and others usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1 usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 12:50:46 Jul 22 2004 usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver e100: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Half duplex pizza:~# dmesg from the debootstrap installation, 'eepro100' appended to /etc/modules: ... kjournald starting. Commit interval 5 seconds EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. EXT3 FS 2.4-0.9.19, 19 August 2002 on sd(8,2), internal journal Real Time Clock Driver v1.10f Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hda: SAMSUNG CD-ROM SN-124, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 hda: attached ide-cdrom driver. hda: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 eepro100.c:v1.09j-t 9/29/99 Donald Becker http://www.scyld.com/network/eepro100.html eepro100.c: $Revision: 1.36 $ 2000/11/17 Modified by Andrey V. Savochkin <saw at saw.sw.com.sg> and others eth0: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:B0:D0:F3:98:2B, IRQ 16. Board assembly 02d484-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). eth1: OEM i82557/i82558 10/100 Ethernet, 00:B0:D0:F3:98:2C, IRQ 17. Board assembly 02d484-000, Physical connectors present: RJ45 Primary interface chip i82555 PHY #1. General self-test: passed. Serial sub-system self-test: passed. Internal registers self-test: passed. ROM checksum self-test: passed (0x04f4518b). pizza:~# Finally, what happened when I ran /etc/init.d/rcS on the primary installation instead of 'cat'ing it. .... CONTROL-D will exit from this shell and continue system startup. Give root password for maintenance (or type Control-D to continue): Setting kernel variables ... ... done. Mounting local filesystems... Cleaning /tmp /var/run /var/lock. Detecting hardware: e100 aic7xxx ide-scsi Skipping already loaded module e100. Skipping already loaded module aic7xxx. Skipping already loaded module ide-scsi. Running 0dns-down to make sure resolv.conf is ok...done. Cleaning: /etc/network/ifstate. Starting hotplug subsystem: input input [failed] isapnp isapnp [success] net net [success] pci aic7xxx: already loaded aic79xx: can't be loaded missing kernel or user mode driver aic79xx eepro100: can't be loaded missing kernel or user mode driver eepro100 e100: already loaded pci [success] usb Bad USB agent invocation usb [success] done Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. Configuring network interfaces...Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client 2.0pl5 Copyright 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 The Internet Software Consortium. All rights reserved. Please contribute if you find this software useful. For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/dhcp-contrib.html Listening on LPF/eth0/00:b0:d0:f3:98:2b Sending on LPF/eth0/00:b0:d0:f3:98:2b Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPOFFER from 192.168.2.1 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.2.1 SIOCADDRT: File exists bound to 192.168.2.65 -- renewal in 1055211139 seconds. done. Loading the saved-state of the serial devices... /dev/ttyS0 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A Setting the System Clock using the Hardware Clock as reference... System Clock set. Local time: Wed Aug 11 20:01:49 CDT 2004 _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list