Yes the bad news is you have to recompile the kernel. Which was not very easy to do. I have an NE2000 also and just went through this pain in the butt process. Here are some resources for what you need to do. http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/Kernel-Build-HOWTO.html http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/2465 It took me about a dozen tries before I succeeded. The thing that kept hanging me up is in the second link above. Make sure you follow Step 8. It seems to me that would be setup by default. I dug for the full two weeks trying to find an example of building a kernel that actually worked. Steve