Thanks for the reply. I am using an cat 5 24awg/4p cable that was connecting my ethernet card to the cable modem. As for the green light it is on and the error message is giving me the ip addresses that you listed on the reply. I do not have a hub. I went to winipcfg(win 98se) and released all. after running the arm the ip address were listed as the proper ip address but it still does not connect. I was hoping that this would be a quick process but I understand good things always take time.