Thanks. A read through the FAQs did prove more helpful than I intitially thought with regard to my question about which packages are installed by default. The only resolution to the "device timeout" error on ne3 so far was for me to yank out the ISA sound card (Soundblaster 16 PnP). Not the ideal solution, but it works for now. I still need to find out how to assign IRQs to ISA devices. The only thing I found in the man pages were some references to isapnp and isa, but nothing about actual management commands.