On Sunday, Oct 31, 2004, at 17:47 Asia/Singapore, Paul Moortgat wrote: > Mark, > > IP address : 169.254.57.141 > Link Speed : 10 Mb > Link Status : Active > Vendor : Apple > Model : gmac+ > > I use Panther 10.3.5 Ok. I use Jaguar 10.2. From the information above, OSX reports that your NIC is working fine. The IP address allocated to your NIC is an internal number. Try to ping your assigned IP address. If that works, it means that your NIC is completely fine and working well. Then that puts to rest any doubts about the functionality of the NIC. From then on, you will need to examine your cables to verify that they indeed are ok. Let me know whether you can ping your assigned IP. -- Best, Mark.