After three evenings I still get "network unreachable" and "eth0 - no such device" messages on my new Woody installaton (I admit not knowing much about these things)
Trying Knoppix (based on Potato+Testing) it detects and configures my DL-650 PCMCIA card in no time automatically, and I can browse the web with no configuration tweaking at all. Couldn't Debian use Knoppix' hardware detection and configuration stuff? - it is based on kudzu (RedHat), but obviously Knoppix has already made the changes for the Debian way of doing things. - Josef