The 8139.o driver was buggy as a beehive for kernel releases 2.2.14 and lower and has been superceded by the 8139too.o module. it's at: http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.4/doc/networking/8139too.txt.html if you don't want to upgrade the kernel, you'll probably need jeff garzik's compatability layer, found at http://gtf.org/garzik/drivers/kcompat24/ ======================== Cheers -- burns