Okay, recording what I did to fix things: Basic problem: Ethernet Ne2k-pci card was loading with INT 0 instead of INT 10, and failing to work.
Solution: (1) It turns out that the others who advised me were right. You can't do a warm boot always from Win98 to Linux. It's gotta be cold. But rather than install LILO, I simply did a web search on "config.sys menu", and wrote a CONFIG menu to let me pick MSDOS, LINUX, or Win98, with the default being Win98 (for my wife). Secondary problem: When I ran ConfLinux (or was it LinuxConf?) the program created a file called modules.conf that was triggering panicky error messages upon boot that modules.conf was deprecated, please remove ASAP. Solution: The proper filename nowadays is conf.modules, not modules.conf, so I was simply able to delete the file. It would seem that the Linux Configuration utility is outdated for Potato -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]