I've tried deactivating eth0 and rebooted. the program NetworkManager Applet 0.6.4 connects with active connection ,the IP no is169.254.176.243 as per the link-local setting. Again i can connect with the browser only to www.debian.org but now i can't ping local machines or internet addresses. route is only showing the link-local connection. should I disable the link-local setting in networks ? -- mitch@sand-hill.freeserve.co.uk