jPV, if your running the same build on a peg1 sucessfully with no special configs needed and just the gui configurator, I'll concentrate on looking at it as a hardware issue.

I'll hook it up to a managed hub where I can define the duplex/speed of the port rather than relying on auto negotiate, and if that doesn't work, consider the onboard nic broken. The peg1 is new to me and purchased off ebay as a peg1 with morphos on it. It arrived with unregistered morphos 3.8 and that wouldn't network either which is why I put a new disk drive and 3.9 on it to start from clean rather than inheriting someone elses configs.

The no stack was on some random forum found in google while trying to work out the issue without pestering people...