thanks for the reply

uhm now I am confused as when I booted the machine to get the settings it picked up the NIC fine.

The only change to the machine is that I had been testing a digital TV card in that box to see if it was picked up by the 2.6 Kernel. I removed it last night and put it back in a windows box.

thanks for trying to help anyway and I'll post more info should I have another issue in the future

DinB