shree5, As this thread is a big testimony, take my suggestions as ones from a bullshitter, as I'm talking from my decade-old experience with BSD. 1. You gave me a full nalibeli of your office; quite impressive. Can you tell me whether the eth0, eth1 are removable. The wireless is probably a PCMCIA card, or is it built into the system? Describe it as much as possible. If any of the cards are removeable, replace them, if you have spares, one at a time. Tell us about how it goes. 1.1 If so, remove first both of them, reboot, pay attention to the messages. Tell me about them. Tell me about it. 1.2 Then plug in eth0 only, tell me how it works (any error messages?). Does it ping to any known host out there? Link lights are OK? 1.3 Now remove eth0 and plug in eth1 and reboot. Tell me if eth1 works (e.g. ping to some host on that network). Link lights now OK? 1.4. Plug in both of the cards and reboot. Tell me if it works: remote hope that the cards are not mounted properly. 2. Can you also find a capture of all the damn messages from the time the LILO(??) says it is booting linux to the point where it asks you to log in. If you do not find a file, write it down yourself. Pay attentions to error messages from all other device drivers, including conflict of IO, memory and interrupt lines, etc. Send it to me and post it here. Keep working...