johnohagan@iprimus.com.au wrote: > - Wired ethernet is claimed to be connected, sometimes reporting > a 169.* ip address, in which case pinging the router fails, or a 192.* address, Would that be a 169.254.x.x address? Purge the zeroconf package if you have it installed. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)