Abstract: The present invention provides a debug-time network environment that enables access to a computer system that has crashed where communication over regular network channels is halted. The debug-time network environment may provide a module loader that loads a copy of a network device driver into memory and dynamically links it into the debug-time network environment. The network device driver may be the same driver used during run-time. The copy of the network driver is loaded into memory prior to a system crash where it is kept in reserve. After a system crash, the final initialization of the copy of the network driver kept in reserve may take place. The debug-time network environment provides an emulated Operating System Application Program Interface (“OS API”) where the emulated OS API enables the driver to initialize, transmit and receive network packets.