Hello benh, you were right, the crash can only be reproduced when the interface is down. After "ifconfig eth0 up" both "cat /sys/.../config" on the ethernet device and "lspci" work. Regards, -- Olaf Dabrunz (od / odabrunz), SUSE Linux AG, Nürnberg ** Sent via the linuxppc64-dev mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/