ok, I noticed that, anyway, I swapped out the 3com card for a netgear card(now using the tulip mod) and even used a different PCI slot and get the same error message. WTF? jeremy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Will Andrews" <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: "Jeremy Ashcraft" <ashcraft@13monkeys.com> Cc: <plug@csociety.ecn.purdue.edu> Sent: Friday, February 23, 2001 11:31 AM Subject: Re: [PLUG] NIC problem