<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: <blockquote cite="mid449EFAC9.90403@infinity-ltd.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Peter Horst wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">[snip network issues] </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[snip helpful advice] </pre> </blockquote> Well, I got sick of mucking about so I grabbed an old NIC out of the cupboard and threw it in. A minute later I was up and running - I guessed right that all I had to do was copy & slightly alter "/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/cfg-eth0" as "cfg-eth1". So I guess it's something with the actual hardware on that brand-new machine. Drag. Thanks everyone for all the help, it's definitely appreciated. Is there any chance this could be considered a bug? I'd report it if there were a hardware database somewhere to check against. Thank God computers still come with PCI slots :-) Peter </body> </html>