The above is the message I receive from my SuSE 8.2 installation on boot! My limited network comprises ADSL usb modem connected to old Pentium II machine which is set up as a Firewall using Smoothwall 1.0.9. This is correctly configured as DHCP & DNS server. My client "main" computer is an Athlon 2400XP configured as a dual boot system with Winblows XP on a 120GB hard disc and SuSE Linux 8.2 on a 40GB hard disc. I am using GRUB as the boot loader. Winblows XP has no problem getting an IP address through its DHCP client but, no matter what I have tried so far - manual configuring of nic, disabling of acpi and pnp (various combinations) in the bios, manually editing bootloader with "acpi=off", editing DHCPCD - I cannot get IP address. The nic & the motherboard on my client machine "main" are both nVidia and I have the latest drivers installed. I am currently running the 2.4 kernel. BIOS is fully up to date. I have been able to configure the client machine "main" to connect to the internet directly via the ADSL but this is no good to me as Winblows is so security flawed that my system got hijacked - even with their "excellent" (not) firewall. So I am keen to keep the network setup as it currently is. The principal error message is as in title: eth0 ..DHCP...No IP Address yet ...backgrounding.....which even with use of ifup(or)down(or)config(or)status remains the same. Log shows DHCPCD as running but eth0 as not running. The only other message I have received is when I switched acpi off and this was eth0...(DHCOP)...dhcpcd[447]...no IP address yet.... backgrounding. I have been unable to ping either way when running SuSE 8.2 absolutely no problem using Winblows. Can anyone help with this please as after 6 months of struggling I am at a loss and have scoured many forums but to no avail!! Regards Humvee