<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body text="#000000" bgcolor="#ffffff"> It would appear the irq situation is not the problem. Why would I worry about the mac being bound to a specific ethX? Ever hear of kudzu? It works, you know. In any event, I believe I've traced the problem to upgrades being done on the adephia cable network. I still have one of the "old" modems so I can't change anything. It would seem that even though the modem can be made to see the new mac, the system won't assign an ip to a mac that it hasn't seen through that modem. Once I get the new modem it should work. Until then I guess I'm just screwed. Nick Aaron Matteson wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid20040301055747.10480.qmail@mail.avlug.org"> <pre wrap="">Axel IS Main became daring and sent these 3.8K bytes, </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I actually tried that, but this stupid bios won't do it. For some reason it won't put the second nic on a different IRQ. Still, I don't think that's the problem any more. I took the second nic out and configured the remaining nic to DHCP. It still didn't pick up the ip, etc., from the cable modem. Man, I miss the days of having 5 IPs and a straight line to the net! </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> No need to change irq's if this is a PCI nic, they are automatically asigned differently unless you have a buggy BIOS. And you can bind your MAC address to a specific ethX. </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>