Actually, the easiest way to get Win98 ethernet up for just the empeg is to install the NIC card and touch nothing else. When 98 (Or ME) dosen't find a DHCP server, it creates it's own IP, in the format of 169.254.x.x, where the x's are a randon number between 1 and 254. The subnet is 255.255.0.0 Simply hook the empeg to the PC with a crossover ethernet cable, give the empeg an IP of 169.254.1.1 and a subnet of 255.255.0.0 and then emplode should be able to see the empeg.