Am making good progress, but now am stalled on my pc and my neighbor's laptop. Cannot get them to connect via their network cards thru the Westell WireSpeed dsl box to Verizon DSL. I can connect on my other pc using SuSE 8 or Win98se. We have looked via YaST2 at the Network card configuration, DSL configuration, and Host name and DNS and have guessed at a variety of settings. The "Link" light is green on the Verizon/Westell box so we do have some communication between the netwok card and the box -- the red "Activity" light flickers momentarily when network card runs through its rebinding process (following changes to the card settings) -- I am guessing that this suggests some level of attempted handshaking that fails. Help, please? Thanks and thanks again! :-) doc