your correct, duh... it looks like this is never going to work. the avr-ethernet only suports atmega32 and a few others not the 328. my mistake and newness to the world of atmega. i assumed and one should never assume that atmega32 refered to any chip in the 32 range ie 328. so my question is where can i find a bootloader for the Atmega328 and ENC28J60? or would there be a way to modify the one written for the atmega32 to run on a atmega328?