yup i read that one, it's actuallu useless in my case, aparently all i ave to do is typein dhcp and darwin takes care of the rest, rocks doesn't it? after i restarted it automatically figured out my host and my connection to the net withut me giving it any additional date, so thatnks for the reply but i got it working, and - yes HALL 9000 - i know it was you who actually got it going but for now let people think your name is Darwin.