Hi, I'm sending this again as no-one has responded to me, I hope someone can help. :-( ------- Well, I finally got myself another network card today for the new machine. However, I can't seem to get it to see the rest of the network or the gateway. :( This is how the network is currently set up: [3 machines]--------[SuSE box]---[modem]----**Internet** | (hub) I tried to ping several machines on the network (with their ips') but get 100% packet loss, and no lights flash on the hub. Here is the 'route' output for scratchy (the non-working machine): Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface scratchy.kechara * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 dummy0 192.168.1.1 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 1 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 2 lo default itchy.k 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 Here is the output of Itchy (the gateway machine with the modem - if this is relevant) Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface itchy.kechara.o * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 dummy0 demon-du.demon. * 255.255.255.255 UH 0 0 0 ppp0 192.168.1.0 * 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 527 eth0 loopback * 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 388 lo default demon-du.demon. 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 23 ppp0 All the other machines on the network (which are Windows98) work fine connecting to Itchy. If anyone has any suggestions, please do let me know with some gentle (newbie-certified(tm)) instructions. :-) If you need any more information, please do let me know what you need and I will try to find out for you. Best Wishes, Lee Smallbone