Hi all, I had a HP Pavilion notebook with a Realtek Card, in Red Hat 9 every thing work fine but in Fedora core 1 not. see my message log file: Dec 17 13:17:51 spit-fire kernel: eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0xc88bd000, 00:10:60:76:89:1e, IRQ 11 Dec 17 13:17:51 spit-fire cardmgr[1576]: socket 1: CardBus hotplug device Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire kernel: 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v0.3.0 (Sep 29, 2002) Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link down Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o: init_module: No such device Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire insmod: Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, including invalid IO or IRQ parameters. You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o: insmod /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o failed Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire insmod: /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o: insmod 8139cp failed Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire pci.agent[2948]: ... can't load module 8139cp Dec 17 13:17:52 spit-fire pci.agent[2948]: missing kernel or user mode driver 8139cp Dec 17 13:17:53 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 ....... the module exist : -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22576 Dez 17 11:36 /lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2129.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/8139cp.o So it load 8139too and in a HI LOAD : Dec 17 13:56:00 spit-fire kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Dec 17 13:56:00 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 Dec 17 13:56:12 spit-fire kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Dec 17 13:56:12 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 Dec 17 13:56:24 spit-fire kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Dec 17 13:56:24 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 Dec 17 13:56:36 spit-fire kernel: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out Dec 17 13:56:36 spit-fire kernel: eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1 my card description : 06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10) Subsystem: Billionton Systems Inc: Unknown device 0200 Control: I/O+ Mem+ BusMaster+ SpecCycle- MemWINV- VGASnoop- ParErr- Stepping- SERR- FastB2B- Status: Cap+ 66Mhz- UDF- FastB2B+ ParErr- DEVSEL=medium >TAbort- <TAbort- <MAbort- >SERR- <PERR- Latency: 64 (8000ns min, 16000ns max) Interrupt: pin A routed to IRQ 11 Region 0: I/O ports at 4800 [size=256] Region 1: Memory at 11000000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=512] Capabilities: [50] Power Management version 2 Flags: PMEClk- DSI- D1+ D2+ AuxCurrent=0mA PME(D0-,D1+,D2+,D3hot+,D3cold-) Status: D0 PME-Enable- DSel=0 DScale=0 PME- I updated my Kernel yesterday ! can any one help me ? Renato -- I had a life before... Now a have a computer and a Orinoco Card.