A little birdy told me that Mike Noble said: ] I downloaded and installed the kernel plus and it had no effect. ] The machine is pretty useless without a network connection. ] Guess I will just go back to using SuSe, unless someone has ] a solution. ] I am also not able to get it to use my Nvidia 6200 LE, I tried to use the ] 6200 but it ] did not work. I do not want to use Generic VESA. ] ] Mike i don't have any idea if this relates... as i haven't used the MB you're talking about... but that being said: i had some very similar issues to what you are describing with the NIC... and they were solved quite easily by simply loading the SMP kernel (instead of the uni-processor one)... and the SMP kernel is on the install CDs/DVD... my experience was that the SMP kernel was pre-compiled with better APIC support that the uniprocessor one... and the interrupt handling of the NIC involved wouldn't work right off the bat without it... just a thought... B. Karhan simon at pop.psu.edu