Yesterday, my eth0 & eth0:0 was working with the r8169 driver and the current 2.6.17 kernel. This morning, it's quite thoroughly hosed: root@fantasia 10:49 ~#ifup eth0 SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device SIOCGIFXQLEN: No such device Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) : SET failed on device eth0 ; No such device. SIOCGIFFLAGS: No such device Failed to bring up eth0 So, what's with the wireless presumption? This is a desktop with no wireless whatsoever. Furthermore, my r8169 is specified for eth0 in /etc/modprobe.conf, the correct hwaddr is specified in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0, and the relevant entry in /etc/sysconfig/hwconf appears quite correct. Most troubling is that this was working yesterday and I can't figure what changed. I only rebooted because my attempts to work with desktop audio somehow crashed the kernel. But how would that affect networking on a reboot? ifconfig also appears broken to me--returns, "Error fetching interface information: Device not found." -- Janina Sajka Phone: +1.240.715.1272 Partner, Capital Accessibility LLC http://CapitalAccessibility.Com Marketing the Owasys 22C talking screenless cell phone in the U.S. and Canada--Go to http://ScreenlessPhone.Com to learn more. Chair, Accessibility Workgroup Free Standards Group (FSG) janina@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://a11y.org