On Friday, December 17, 2010 02:44:46 am Helmut Drodofsky wrote: > Hallo, > > actual Intel Ethernet cards PCI-E > - Are normal recognized by Centos 5.5 Live CD > - Not recognized by 5.2 > Because of vmware, I will use 5.2 Why? Are you wanting it as a VMware host or guest? As the kernels are basically identical in terms of the version string, the VMware kernel modules, for VMware Server or Workstation as a host, and VMware tools as a guest, should load without a recompile. I'm running a number of CentOS 5.5 guests on VMware ESX 3.5U5 with no issue. Which VMware is this, type and version, please?