Hi Ben (and other helpful respondents), Thanks for the advice. I now have the two machines talking to each other and I am able to control the firewall from the "main" pc....but I cannot access the web. Is there an additional command that I need to enter in the bootloader to permit this? I have looked at the help manuals for the browser Konqueror, but cannot identify any further configuration issues. Thanking you for your assistance and patience with a n00b! Humvee -----Original Message----- From: Ben Higginbottom [mailto:ben@centralmanclc.com] Sent: 28 December 2003 20:22 To: 'Andy Wallace '; 'suse-linux-e@suse.com ' Subject: RE: [SLE] eth0 ..DHCP...No IP Address yet ...backgrounding.....

Can anyone help with this please as after 6 months of struggling I am at a loss and have scoured many forums but to no avail!!

Try booting into safemode, if you obtain an IP, then you just need to add the option acpi=off to the grub menu. Regards, Ben