On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:58:00 +0000, I Beartooth Sciurivore wrote: [snipperoo] > Lo and behold, it's doing it! I'm in process of upgrading now. > > Lish me wuck! Bushels, barrels, carloads of it! Wiv a wittle bit > o' bloomin' wuck, I can start configuring, even if only by ethernet > cable. And download a wireless driver, or maybe even get one, free as > usual, with my next update. The upgrade finished; pirut tried to launch -- and failed to connect. Service network restart gets as far as trying to bring up eth0, then reports failure : "3c501 device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying initialization." Is that still the driver problem, or ...? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Evangelist Fedora 8; Ubuntu 7.10; CentOS 5.1; Alpine 1.0, Pan 0.132; Privoxy 3.0.6 Remember I know little (precious little!) of what I am talking about.