hi, 90% of my networking problems have been due to faulty cables. Some had the wrong sets of pairs twisted together, so that work fine at 10Mbs but not at 100Mbs - never let a software engineer make cables up :) So check/swap cables round to test them. Also I would try forcing the windoze pc to 10Mbs half duplex rather than auto-negiotate. If all else fails try the nic in a debian box and/or convert your fiancee to using debian. My latest problem network at work was a laptop's built in NIC - it wasn't auto detected but seemed to install okay, but it just wouldn't work connect to anything, after two days I realised that the NIC module hadn't been installed but the external connectors had - doh Neil _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
