I have a 4 port Netgear RT 314 Router (set up to hand out IP address) I
guess it acts as the DHCP server this is connected to the INternet via a
cable modem (Mediaone/ATT) I also have various Windoze machine on my home
network.

Here is the problem. As far as I can tell the eth0 card on my linux machine
(Caldera version ? 2.2 kernal) is working OK I can ping 127.0.0.0 and it
comes back OK. I try to click on (in the network setup area) on DHCP to
obtain IP adress, and it keeps defaulting back to a set IP address. I assume
once I get the linux machine I can then surf the net. Netgear has already
said the route should hand out an IP address. Also the best I can tell SAMBA
in not currently installed. I will install it later once I can surf the net.

Please e-mail me with suggestions....as I will probably lose my posting or
forget how to get back to this site

Thanks John

sfdme...@mediaone.net