ok - now I'm feeling a bit sheepish! I got donald becker's ne2k diagnostic utility and tried using it to check my card - which didn't come back with any promising results - after screwing around with a bunch of other stuff I decided to try some different io ports and found that the io listed in my conf.modules was infact incorrect - it's 0x260 not 0x300 as I previously had in there... strange - may be the linuxconf upgrade had something to do with this value being changed? anyway - the card is being recognised now and (hopefully) all seems to be happy now... really not too sure why the io port was wrong - in my notes I scribbled as I set up the server I even have the card listed at 0x300... very strange... oh well! :) thanks for reading my ramblings regarding this problem! cheers, dan. -- Nitro - 3D Visualisation, Graphics & Animation Ph (+61 2) 9810 5177 - Fx (+61 2) 9810 0199 http://www.nitro.com.au/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list