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Thanks for the moral support. The Genius parallel port adapter comes with a program called PEAPD.COM (pocket ethernet adaptor packet driver) which is supposed to look for the adaptor. When it finds the adaptor it reports 'success' and puts the ethernet address of the adaptor on the screen. After that the network software can get to work (PCNFS). So you can check the first stage by just running PEAPD ie you don't need to get the Network software going. The advantage of this is that you can strip the config.sys and autoexec.bat files down to zero to eliminate any possible clashes. Anyway, with the Thinkpad 700 you get 'fail'. I tried Genius technical support (UK) -- they said they had had two reports about a similar problem and suggested changing a few things in the CMOS, which produced no improvement. My guess is that the CMOS changes might fix things for the Novell driver but they do nothing for the tcp/ip driver that I need for PCNFS. I also suspect that the user base is very small in the UK. Does Genius sell in the USA, if so can anyone provide the technical support telephone number? By the way IBM help, was pretty worthless. They suggest that I might like to buy an external MCA box... Of course, this problem could just be something to do with the Thinkpad being a PS2 machine, but I don't know how this might result in PEAPD failing to find the parallel port. Peter Clifford