Hi All I have been struggling for some time to configure Suse 8.2 for network & internet access via a 2nd old computer running Smoothwall 1.0 and usb adsl (although I would imagine this would apply to anyone using a router as well but don't know for sure.) But I now have had success. I provide the detail in the hope that it helps someone else. Ensure that dhcpcd is installed. If you have a message - as i did -similar to: eth0 [dhcp] ...no IP address yet ......backgrounding during boot and subsequent rcnetwork restart does nothing and ifup/down/status/config doesn't help either it may be that you need to identify whether the acpi is the cause of the problem (seems from forum posts that this is more prevalent on newer systems) boot into safe mode. If this reveals an ip number for ethx where x= the number for your nic go into YAST2 as at 2) below. An additional problem was self-inflicted in as much that I had scanned a number of forums/maillists for help and had tried lots of different solutions and had basically scrambled the eth0 configuration!! The process I went through therefore was: 1) a clean install of Suse. - I had been trying to set up my network for quite some time and had followed all sorts of advice from this list and many others and this had "clogged" up the process. 2) I amended the GRUB bootloader via YAST2 to include the "acpi=off" instruction. path= YAST2_System_Boot Loader Configuration. Then select "Edit Configuration Files" and in the section of the file headed "Linux" enter "acpi=off" (without the quotes) - I entered this after the entry for "hdd=ide-scsi" but I imagine anywhere after the "root=" bit would work. 3) My system is nVidia orientated so I then installed the latest kernel binary RPM to set up the nvidia mobo & nic. See: ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/nforce/1.0-0261/ReleaseNotes_Linux_nForce_1.0-0261.html (or later depending on when you might use this note) 4) Restart the computer. (rcnetwork restart didn't do the job) 5) Test your browser connectivity and it should - hopefully - all be working ;-) Anyway hope this helps someone and my thanks to all who have tried to help me. humvee (still a n00b and proud of it)