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>As part of my neverending battle to get my TP755CE "ready for everything" >for my sabbatical, I am trying to both understand and implement the >ability for my TP to talk TCP/IP to both a standalone SPARC 10 and to >a TCP/IP LAN. I want to do this under DOS and Windows first. My aim >is to allow my ThinkPad to telnet and ftp to workstations on a TCP/IP LAN. Best of luck!!! getting TCP/IP running on the Thinkpad was a most heinous chore for me. I am using a TP750C with the 3Com ethernet board networked to a Sun and an RS/6000 on 10Base2. Of the free stuff that is out there, I use: NCSA Telnet (for telnet/ftp) and XFS for mounting disks. In order to communicate to the ethernet board, I use the Microsoft protocal manager, an NDIS driver, a packet driver, and a windows packet shim. All of this is available free on the internet, except the NDIS driver which came with my ethernet board. It is a real mishmash. I can send you my config.sys if you want. Kermit also does some rudimentary TCP/IP stuff, but it is pretty new and poorly documented. I think NCSA Telnet is more stable. If you want, you can go out and buy a commercial TCP/IP package such as PCNFS (recommended), IBM TCP/IP for DOS (not recommended), or others. This can run into hundreds of dollars, though. You can connect directly from a thinkpad to a UNIX box with twisted pair without a hub. But you need a special (but cheap) cable, and your "net" can only support the two machines. As for SLIP/PPP and Kermit, yes I have gotten it working, but what does this have to do with ethernet? It is only useful over a modem. --andy