Axel IS Main became daring and sent these 3.8K bytes, > I actually tried that, but this stupid bios won't do it. For some reason > it won't put the second nic on a different IRQ. Still, I don't think > that's the problem any more. I took the second nic out and configured > the remaining nic to DHCP. It still didn't pick up the ip, etc., from > the cable modem. Man, I miss the days of having 5 IPs and a straight > line to the net! No need to change irq's if this is a PCI nic, they are automatically asigned differently unless you have a buggy BIOS. And you can bind your MAC address to a specific ethX. -- /\o Aaron M Matteson - http://cryptosystem.us /\/ /\ Real programmers don't document. If it was hard to write, / \ it should be hard to understand! -------------------------------------------------------------------------- /~\ The ASCII Ribbon Campaign Against HTML Email! \ / X All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander / \ are lost --jrr tolkien