I just got cable modem service installed a couple of days ago (Time Warner Roadrunner), and of course my first project was to get it running with Linux. (SuSE 5.3 on a Thinkpad 760XL.) I downloaded and installed the dhclient rpm from SuSE's ftp site, and it worked right away. Then things went downhill. When I restart or reboot the machine, 3 times out of 4 I fail to get connected. I get a series of messages from dhclient like this: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 send_packet: Network is unreachable . . . with mostly increasing values of interval. I can always get a connection (for a while) by disabling dhclient: 1. Boot up in NT and run ipfconfig to get current IP address 2. Go into Linux and use YaST to disable dhclient and enter the IP address 3. Reboot Linux. Note: This is a notebook and it is running PCMCIA modules. However, the ethernet card is in a docking station and is not managed through PCMCIA. Any advice on dhclient? And before I try dhcpcd, any tips? Any help appreciated -- Wade Leftwich <wade@lightlink.com> 122 Valley View Road, Ithaca NY 14850, USA 1-607-277-1334 - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e