The module is there as alias eth0 e1000 but it doesn't get loaded. It is very peculiar. I will inform list if I find what is makes this happen. By the way module can also get loaded explicitly adding network="e1000" line to rc.sysinit > On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > >> I think on power outage one of the files deleted by the fsck. I want to >> ask which file or startup script loads ethernet and other networking >> modules (such as iptables). I have manually edited >> /etc/rc.d/init.d/network to load e1000 driver from >> /lib/modules/KERNEL-VERS/kernel/drivers/net/e1000/e1000.ko which is >> obviously not a good thing to do but solved my problem for a while. At >> least until I debug the problem. > > the file is /etc/modprobe.conf > -- Omer Faruk Sen http://www.faruk.net