@knc1: If USBNet is setup to be enabled at boot (i.e., touch /mnt/us/usbnet/auto if KUAL is down), and the device is unplugged during boot, then it'll switch to USBNet ASAP during boot (leaving it plugged would just stall the boot process for 15s and fail to bring up the usb0 network interface properly).
Yeah, eips doesn't care about what's already in the framebufer, it always overlays

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