Ah, that worked perfectly. Thanks Alexander. Love this learning stuff :) So, for the NIC I got: (ugh..have to type this out as I can't get info off the FC3) 00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corp 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] (rev 20) Subsystem: 3Com Corp: Unknown Device 6356 Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 64, IRQ 11 I/O Ports at 1800 [size=256] [virtual] Memory at f4101400 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=128] (above repeated) Capabilities: <available only to root> So, it looks like it's fine and working to my untrained eye. Am I missing something? Davide