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I'm trying to set up a new machine with three ethernet cards, of which I only need to get two working. One is recognized by lspci, although I have to figure out myself that it's the eepro100 driver. A second, says lspci, is Bridgecom Inc: Unknown device 9851 (rev. 11). (It's a Linksys card.) Google makes me think that this card may be hopeless. A third is 3Com Corporation: Unknown device 9909 (rev. 02). Not enough information to find much on google, it seems. Mandrake 8.0 is able to recognize two of the cards (but not to net-install fully), so I only know that it's possible. So I s/stable/unstable/g in sources.list, in the hopes of upgrading to the point that I can see a new module that will work. Questions: 1. Am I confused? Apt-get upgraded many things, but not, apparently, anything kernel related. Is this intentional? Yes, I could recompile the kernel, but I still have to think a lot when I do that, and I've made errors before that render my machine inoperable after a kernel compile, something I try to avoid. 2. Why does apt-get say it's holding back certain packages when I do a dist-upgrade? Tia for clues. -- Jeff Jeff Abrahamson <http://www.purple.com/jeff/> ______________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group - http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements-http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mail/listinfo/plug