please disregard my previous message. i figured it out. fyi, for this type of card you have to load the 3com ether disk to manually change the nis transceiver type to the 10baseT instead of auto detect. the utility was called 3c5x9cfg.exe from the file 3c5x9x.exe. i'm a dork, thank you, and drive through. dennis -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to debian-user-REQUEST@lists.debian.org . Trouble? e-mail to Bruce@Pixar.com