mz...sorry I didn't mean to miss you What makes me uncomfortable about the fix to "fix" the netcardconfig is what hoops it was to jump through. I really didn't ever think to EDIT a SHELL SCRIPT. I was looking for a config file. OK, I am a linux newbie stop laughing. But I googled for hours (and in debian forums, to boot) and came up with zilch except for that one post here that had a solution, for me anyway. I would think something as important as getting the network card configuration to load every time would be better documented. It makes me uneasy. Hard to explain, I think it is probably the wrong way to do it, much like my "fix" for the user can't get modem issue.