If the lights are not working, is the NIC connected to the other PC? Also, what sort of cable are you using? That can make a difference (cross-connect vs. direct) I've had problems with getting YAST2 to set up the second NIC properly, so I have to set mine "manually" upon boot. I do that by having the "ifconfig" statement in /etc/boot.local Also, do you have the NIC in the WIn2k box set up right? HTH! Geordon At 02:31 PM 3/19/01, you wrote:

hello,

Well it has finally come to pass that I now have two computers. The old one (K6III 450) I gave to my wife and my new Athlon 1.333/266 (running SuSE 7.1).

Now my question is; I used SuSE Yast2 two to setup the 2nd Nic which connects the two computers. My wife's computer runs Windows ME. I fell I've got the basics down (like tell the firewall that there is a second nic on eth1), but I've missed a few things as there is no activity on the 2nd nic my box. I gave the Nic and IP of 192.*.*.*.8 and a mask of 255.255.254.0.

I'm just looking for a temporay solution until I get a old P'133MHz to run as a firewall/router/gateway.

Just a last note. The Nic I installed might be defective but I'm not sure how to test for that. A friend had me run ipconfig and it show what looked to be a working card, but the light on the card are not on.

Best regards! Geordon ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Why do programmers confuse Christmas with Halloween? Because 31 OCT = 25 DEC