I wanted to thank everyone who responded to my questoin. Fortunately or unfortunately i was forced to reboot the machine for other reasons, and upon rebooting eth0 was there. Repeated suspends had no effect, i.e. eth0 was still there (meaning that suspending isnt what caused it to vanish).
Since i cant repeat the problem i dont know what to do to try and solve it. But i am keeping the messages around so that if it does happen again i will be ready. Thank you! Jen __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]