hi again,
What does ifconfig tell you? Just open a console window and type ifconfig. You should see information about your network card Do you have a link light on your network card?
ifconfig gives me the following: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:90:27:30:39:5E UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 Interrupt:5 Base address:0x210 the link light on the network card is blinking happily... furthermore, the dhcp client drops the following messages in /var/log/messages: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 (the interval number varies) and a bit later: No DHCPOFFERS received guess that means no go... :-) something else i should have mentioned earlier: when i start windows, Microsoft Networking is started. that is how i get to the internet and my e-mail under windows. if i by-pass it, i have no access to the internet or to e-mail. thanks, joost -------------------------------------------------------- Mr. Joost Kremers, MA University of Nijmegen - The Netherlands Department of Languages and Cultures of the Middle-East PO Box 9103 6500 HD Nijmegen - The Netherlands phone: +31 24 3612996 fax: +31 24 3611972