I went a couple rounds with my computer tonight trying to get it to talk to the Internet. Tried installing Mandrake Linux 10.0, Mandrake Linux 9.1 and OpenBSD. I think my ethernet card which allows your computer to transfer data to other computers and the internet has gone to the great computer graveyard in the sky. Of course things are never simple. Still getting power to the card but no data transfer. The computer is a pentium II I use as a web server which means hunting for obscure commodity parts to hopefully replace the card and get everything running again. Computers are so much fun.