Hi! I had experienced one of problems that Jordi also has on his install, I knew it was related to the 8139too module, so I left it aside and used rtl8139 instead. I have traced the thing and I have found that the problem is in dbootstrap's util.c, we have a function called execlog that has this little piece of code: output = popen(cmd, "r"); while (fgets(line, MAXLINE, output) != NULL ) { syslog(priority, line); } closelog(); Well, the thing is that it waits forever on the fgets as the 8139too module whe ifconfig creates a kernel thread that doesn't close the filehandles it get's from ifconfig, wich are connected to us. I have commented this problem on the linux-lernel m.l. and Andrew Morton has replied with a solution for the kernel module that seems to work, so I have filed Bug#97932 against kernel-source-2.2.19 to explain Herbert what happens and how this could be fixed, let's hope he does :-) Regards... -- Manty/BestiaTester -> http://manty.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]