Quote Originally Posted by Zak
yes, ferreter my brother, I can see the card needs to get detected, but I don't think it's gonna happen, will run those commands & post back here, (probably after much beer) maybe a eureka moment will ensue! can I add that using windows the same thing happens nothing connects until I input the MAC address, from the moment the MAC is entered everything fires up.
I took a quick look at man interfaces there seems to be a couple of ways to set the MAC address you may want to try hwaddress ether mac_address_needed as a line in your interfaces file for the eth0 maybe with the pre-up command included as well on the line.