"Gabriel Ivanes" <gab@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > ( I don't understand the use of 'ls' in the script ) Drivers are only loaded on demand - and "ls /dev/net/" causes the system to load the networking drivers. If you do a "ifconfig" afterwards, anyway, it's not necessary, though, as that one opens the /dev/net/stack driver, anyway. > But i can't assign an ip address to my card : I'm not sure how, but by removing the sysctl() function, I obviously not only broke routing, but also this one. IOW our current networking stack is non-functional right now - but that's only a small loss, anyway, it never worked that good (or long). Bye, Axel.