Sorry, I wanted to mention all this info but I forgot: 

On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:41:42PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> Does the network work with a plain i386 kernel ? 

Yes.  

> Does it work if you don't start any domains (and no bridge interfaces) ?

No, it doesn't work either then.  

> What kind of network card is it ?

rtk0 at pci3 dev 2 function 0: Realtek 8139 10/100BaseTX
(correctly detected by the XEN0 kernel)

	Geert