Hmm... I've never seen any of the systems like you describe, but I would guess that the RJ45 jack is probably just standard 10Base-T Ethernet (or if the machine is really strange, Token Ring, but I would doubt that). If you've got a small network onhand with a machine capable of serving BOOTP, you might want to try turning on the BOOTP server to see if you can pick up the request from the machine (BOOTP is a rather standard way of doing such things).. you could pick up the MAC address of the system's Ethernet device by running a sniffer like TCPdump when it is broadcasting looking for an IP. _NO_ idea what this little bugger might have ran, though.. perhaps some variety of stylus-enabled DOS/Win 3.1 or something along those lines, i'd imagine. -Sean Caron (root(a)diablonet.net)