OK, impulse buy at Office Despot. I found that I couldn't live without the Linksys PCMCIA NIC that had no dangly cord -- it's an integrated jack. With two children under 3, this is heavy duty cable stealth technology! It rang up $40 cheaper than marked on the shelf! Figgered I'd get home and put it in the laptop that's been running a dangly ethernet card, and probably spend a while messing with card services and drivers. So I plugged it into the other PCMCIA slot so I'd still have access to the debian mirror, and gosh darn it -- now I had eth0 and eth1 active! I didn't have to do any installation, tweaking or anything. It happened to use the same ne2000 compatible drivers as the dlink it replaced. Now that's how things are supposed to work, right? I think it was too easy... waiting for the other shoe to fall. <g> Cheers, Phil M -- "To misattribute a quote is unforgivable." --Anonymous