Gentlemen Thanks to everyone who made suggestions about how to get my ethernet card working on ADSL. This was my first experience with ethernet cards. The card uses the tulip driver, and altho the driver would install, the system would not recognize it, i.e., it would not be assigned an interrupt, even with the PnP OS option disabled in the BIOS. I switch quite frequently between W98 and Linux, and discovered that if I just did a warm boot from W98 to linux, the interrupt was not assigned. I assume there must be a better solution than shutting down first. I thought at one time there was some sort of kernel patch to permit assignment of an interrupt without depending on the BIOS. If this makes sense with the problem I have, perhaps someone could let me know. Anyway, thanks again to everyone.
Gary Debian GNU/Linux, Kernel 2.2.17 FreeBSD 4.0