funny, but that was among the first things I tried before posting.
I did look the board over as well.

Well still no luck. Ethereal under windows wasn't of much use
except that learned that a machine here had the latest strain
of one of those supid windows virii. Trying to watch the DHCP
is useless, but I do later see the SSDP attempts.

It doesn't appear to be a port blocking problem,but I'm about
stumped.

Why does the unit default to 169.254.x.x with no cable?
(well the wpnq does anyway, but its the same as when
it gets no assignment on eth)

Sorry to say I'll be out of town for a while so this will stay
not working.

Ed