Hello! The network did work when I installed the 10 (I did network installation). And the network worked at my home where it is behind a NAT with DHCP settings. In addition to the Ethernet cable I also have a 3COM WLAN card (it does not work with WPA even though it did in Windows 2000 - I had to downgrade my security... but that's another thread sometime...) But at my home I was using the WLAN. The problems started, when I started to debug the bad quality of WLAN. I closed the WLAN card and plugged in the cable that I used when I installed the 10. I expected that the same thing would happen as with windows - i.e. I would be instantly connected through the cable. But no. The connection seems to be ok as far as the NAT, but DNS doesn't work and even pinging known IP addresses outside my NAT didn't work. And at the same time windows and another linux (SUSE 9.3) worked fine. After that, I tried to go back to the WLAN, so I unplugged the cable and opened the WLAN card (has a sort of on-off switch with the X-Jack antenna). WLAN connected to the WLAN/NAT, but again no DNS and outside connections are not working. How to fix this? Well reboot of course. After a couple of reboots, raind dance and all that, suddenly WLAN works again. I have no idea why it stopped working and why it came back. Now I'm at my parents place, writing this from windows as I could not get by linux to work with their NAT. Not with WLAN (although I again got connected to the access point) and not with cable. No amount of rebooting and rain dance has helped yet. I can ping the NAT, but not beyond that. No DNS either (probably for the same reasons). So the question is: What is broken with SUSE 10? I have set up the lan during the installation to get everything from DHCP. Well, actually I did not change anything from the network settings after the installation. The WLAN is also set to get everything from DHCP. I can not find anything from YAST to renew the connection or something like that. I think that I could use the YAST profile manager to manage the networks somehow, but I have everything configured to get settings from DHCP, so I do not see any reason for any profiles (Kinternet seems to remember the WEP keys for the access points). I mean, there is no problems like this with windows laptop running ancient windows 2000 (the same exact laptop). Just blug it in and it works? Why doesn't default SUSE10 just plug and network? Which loops do I have to jump through? -- HG.