: k, here goes, any help is much appreciated thanks: this seems to be a common problem with this model of laptop and pcmcia card type, but after following some of the potential fixes on hypernews i'm still without connectivity. my link light is appearing (in the correct colours, i'm on a 100mb connect), the activity light does come on, all of the dns and ip information for my host is correct. the only thing i can see that might be a problem is the 'Kernel Module' section in linuxconf, it has been left blank as my pcmcia card is not listed. a tcpdump displays a few arp messages, but nothing terribly interesting. i'm relatively new to the linux game, so please be gentile, and drop me an e-mail to either the sender (vicken) or to the address below. thanks a million! im running redhat 6.0 -- chris ellerbeck ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Senior Web Developer Nettwerk Productions Vancouver, BC. -- Vicken Awakian (905) 845-9430, ext 2930 Sheridan College 1430 Trafalgar Road Oakville, Ontario, L6H 2L1