LaCie Ethernet Disk Mini Gigabit/USB not recognized by Leopard

I have successfully setup the disk on USB using OS X Tiger 10.4.10 but I cannot get the Network Preferences Pane to recognise the disk as an ethernet device under OS X Leopard 10.5 during initial installation and configuration. Under Leopard the disk seems to appear as a modem device (telephone icon instead of ethernet <---> icon).
I am running a PowerBook G4 1.25Ghz with 2Gb RAM. Before I fully commit to Leopard I am running Tiger on the PowerBook's internal hard drive and I have Leopard running from a partition on a triple interface (Firewire 800/400USB2) 250Mb Lacie external drive (connected using FW800).
Under Leopard's System Profiler, the ethernet mini disk appears (under network>locations) with the following info:
Ethernet Disk mini:
Type: PPP
IPv4:
Configuration Method: PPP
IPv6:
Configuration Method: Automatic
Proxies:
FTP Passive Mode: Yes
PPP:
ACSP Enabled: No
Display Terminal Window: No
Redial Count: 1
Redial Enabled: Yes
Redial Interval: 5
Use Terminal Script: No
Dial On Demand: No
Disconnect On Fast User Switch: Yes
Disconnect On Idle: Yes
Disconnect On Idle Time: 600
Disconnect On Logout: Yes
Disconnect On Sleep: Yes
Idle Reminder: No
Idle Reminder Time: 1800
IPCP Compression VJ: Yes
LCP Echo Enabled: Yes
LCP Echo Failure: 4
LCP Echo Interval: 10
Log File: /var/log/ppp.log
Verbose Logging: No
I have updated the disk's driver to version 1.1.1 from http://www.lacie.com/uk/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10105 and have tried both the IP Configurator that came on the CD and the latest version from http://www.lacie.com/uk/support/drivers/driver.htm?id=10096
Has anyone else managed to get a similar disk running ok under Leopard? I've opened a ticket with LaCie support but thought I'd throw this open to a wider audience. I'll post any feedback I get from LaCie that leads to a positive result.

OK, I'm getting desparate here, and the only way to start a new thread is to reply to a previous thread I have (Apple, please fix the forums! No searching currently either!)
I have a Lacie drive that died on me - not showing up on the network, and making odd clicking noises. As a last ditch attempt I bought an external USB drive enclosure and took the HD out of the Lacie enclosure. Miraculously, the drive spins up much better and without any noise. I see the drive and all it's partitions in Disk Utility however none would mount. From what I've read, Lacie has an embedded Linux OS, so the partitions are formatted that way.
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ ls -al /dev/disk1*
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 3 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 4 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s2
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 5 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s5
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 6 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s6
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 7 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s7
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 8 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s8
brw-r----- 1 dwayne operator 14, 9 Jul 17 15:39 /dev/disk1s9
So I tried installing ExtFSManager from sourceforge, and I now two of the partitions mount and I can see the data (YAY!) However (of course) the partition I really need is not one of the ones that mount.
Does anyone know what I could be missing, and how I can possibly get these other partitions mounted? From the listing below, it looks like the two that mounted OK are of type ext2
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ mount
/dev/disk0s2 on / (hfs, local, journaled)
devfs on /dev (devfs, local)
fdesc on /dev (fdesc, union)
map -hosts on /net (autofs, automounted)
map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted)
/dev/disk1s7 on /Volumes/UNTITLED (ext2, local, nodev, nosuid)
/dev/disk1s8 on /Volumes/UNTITLED 1 (ext2, local, nodev, nosuid)
http://idisk.mac.com/dwaynekking/ on /Volumes/dwaynekking (webdav, nodev, noexec, nosuid, mounted by dwayne)
I have tried something like:
dk-kridan-consulting:~ dwayne$ mount -t ext2 /dev/disk1s2 /tmp/dktest
/mount_ext2: device '/dev/disk1s2' appears not to contain a valid filesystem
mount_ext2: /dev/disk1s2 on /private/tmp/dktest: Invalid argument
Not sure why the others won't mount.
I would be SO grateful to anyone who can help me out.
Dwayne

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