I've got two question regarding networking. I've got a machine with a D-Link DFE 530-TX network card Problem 1: On sunday I managed to get the card working again after a week of trying to understand why it didn't work. The problem seems to be related to the hardware address of the card. When I ran ifconfig the hardware address was 0. I opened the machine and changed slot, turned the machine on and it worked again. Running ifconfig gave the proper hardware address. Yesterday my son decided that it was time to run Ages of Empire so I booted up the machine in Windows mode. Today when I booted up the machine in Linux again the address was once again set to 0. A bit suspicious I turned off the main power to the machine, waited 10-15 minutes and tried again and this time the hardware address was OK. So once again I booted up the machine in Windows (98 SE) and then rebooted into Linux again and ... the hardware adress was once again 0. Shutting down the power and the booting up in Linux again gives the card the right address again. I'm no windows expert (the only reason why I got the machine was to run Linux) so I have no idea what is happening. Does anyone have an idea? Problem 2: The machine is connected to a hub to which I also have a number of Macs connected. At work I downloaded the Java 1.3 files to my PowerBook, went home, connected it to the hub and tried to copying the files using FTP. At the beginning everythings seems fine but after a few second the transfer stops (about 4.5 MB is transferred) and when I look in /var/log/messages it says: mommo kernel: eth0: MII PHY found at address 8, status 0x7829 advertising 01e1 Link 0021 What does it mean? How can I fix this? jem -- Jan Erik Moström mailto:jem@mostrom.pp.se Free Elektron http://www.mostrom.pp.se/folk/jem/