On Tuesday, April 22, 2003, at 04:21 am, John Pariseau wrote: > Really crazy thought. > > Create a location, turn off all of the ports (modem, ethernet, IR), > and restart. Just a thought, not very computerific... that's what I would do to debug this also... Do you normally use a PPP connection for your network connectivity? FWIW the first chapter of the book "Mac OS C for Unix Geeks" (o'reilly) is devoted to the startup process. I haven't taken a look at it yet, so I have no idea if it is any use... -- Tarik Bilgin Opalblue tarik at opalblue.com