This could be caused if you have an old network configuration, perhaps your system was upgraded from an earlier version of your distribution, or maybe you've changed or removed some other network card in the past. Whatever the cause, you can probably solve this by running 'system-config-network' (or, in text mode from the command line 'system-config-network-tui') and deleting any spurious/old/out of date interfaces it lists. This could be caused if you have an old network configuration, perhaps your system was upgraded from an earlier version of your distribution, or maybe you've changed or removed some other network card in the past. Whatever the cause, you can probably solve this by running 'system-config-network' (or, in text mode from the command line 'system-config-network-tui') and deleting any spurious/old/out of date interfaces it lists. I do only get this error after a scripted kickstart of which I copy (overwrite) some system files, including ifcfg-eth0 & 1. (HWADDR was wrong once, then left blank for next try, then set correctly, wouldnt of thought that would have anything to do with this?) The date/time are all messed up due to no clock, couldnt be this? Other files I copy are nothing to do with networking (as far as I belive!) grub/smb/rc.init As I am setting up many computers, all with the same networking info (private/closed systems). So I setup the ifcfg-eth0/1 and commented out the HWADDR, and saved this to copy once the new system is installed. When I got this error, I put the correct