Umm, this is a rather simple thing to check, but it caused the ff:ff..... ethernet adress on my own box: Are you sharing IRQ9 with any other cards? Including things built in to your motherboard? If you check IRQs in the Device Manager of Win9x, the _ONLY_ other thing listed as IRQ9 should be IRQ holder for PCI steering. if anything else is also listed, that is your problem. Otherwise, I have my card up and running just fine on the 2.0.35 kernel w/out the updated driver patch.
--Evan
