Well, I made a little progress in that I can ping the internal IP (as assigned to eth0) from the machine itself as well as the local host 127.0.0.1. However, I can't get it to ping the other machine and vise versa. I tried a lsmod and it stated that the tulip driver was unused. Is that right? I tried to insmod the tulip driver and it stated it was already running? All lights are on (hub and NIC) and I think everything is okay, however, when I run ifconfig on eth0 it doesn't recognize the NIC as an LNE100TX, but calls it a PNC? Is anyone using a LNE100TX NIC with the mdk7 supplied tulip driver? I tried to compile the tulip driver included with the NIC per the instructions from Linksys.com. All I got was about 500 lines of errors when I ran it through gcc. Any insight would help. Do I have to compile the entire kernel or can I just go with the module and replace the "old" tulip.o with a "fresh" one?