Managed to successfully set up the above. Here's my story. Feel free to comment on it. Background: ----------- MediaOne RoadRunner in Atlanta. 3Com Cable modem. D-Link 10/100 NIC model no. 530TX+. The driver came with it on a floppy. I compiled the driver module and it worked fine (rtl8139.o). SuSE Linux 6.2 (kernel 2.2.10). 0. Things known to work fine with Win98. Got all the details such as NIC hw address, DNS, relevant IP addresses (DNS, DHCP srvr, my machine's IP, etc.) from the Win98 box and wrote it down. 1. Booted machine into Linux. Card not recognized. To solve this problem, did an "insmod rtl8139". The card then got recognized. 2. Started up Yast and added dhcp client. Nothing happened. ifconfig does not report an IP address for the card. ping does not return any info. But I can see the LEDs on the cable modem indicating that packets are flowing from the machine to the modem, and from the modem to the world. 3. Go back to Windows. Visit the SuSE site and other Linux sites. People want me to get the dhcpcd package instead of the default stuff that comes on the CD. But I am obstinate... 4. Also found out that the default IP of the card is set to 192.x.x.x but it should be 0.0.0.0 for some providers. (from SuSE support DB). 5. Reboot into Linux and set the IPs as above. No luck. 6. Read the FAQs again (I have printed some of the pages :-) 7. Ah ha!!! Look at /var/log/messages for errors. See that the DHCP server is sending good stuff but the client is rejecting them. Go to /etc/dhclient.conf and comment out the line that say "require dns" or something like that. 8. Still no luck getting an IP address. ifconfig eth0 does not show an IP address. 9. So I modify the dhclient script file and set up the temporary IP to be the same as the IP I got from the DHCP server in Win98. 10. Success(?). The dhclient starts up and gives good messages about accepting leases and all that. ifconfig reports the correct IP address. I don't know if it is dynamically setting the IP or just using the "temporary" IP which happens to be the same as what it got from the DHCP server. 11. Steady and strong connection to the net. Ping works. Ftp works. Netscape works. Start off reading about ipchains... that story is for another day Just wanted to convey my thanks to the Linux-people in general. All those FAQs and mails that you write are being used by someone somewhere who is grateful! -venkat P.S. No experience with other distributions but SuSE is just great in terms of support. My appreciation of SuSE grows more and more with every passing day. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/