Dear Deryk, Thanks for your help !! :-))
I'll try this asap. The problem is, as I said in my first message, that I cannot continue the setup procedure after the first boot as the NIC module is not loaded... Also I'm not using a dhcp server but static addresses so which command should I use to enable the network ? Please explain in a step by step procedure, I'm not a Linux guru yet ;-)) Thanks again Roberto >You're lucky. Unfortunately the sarge install puts > > auto eth0 > >in the /etc/networking/interfaces file, which means that it tries to >bring the network up before the PCMCIA services are loaded. > >Typing dhclient as root will enable the network, but a preferable >solution is to remove the offending line and just leave the > > iface eth0 inet dhcp