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I don't remember if I asked this here already; sorry if it's a repeat: I'm about to order an SVGA 755CX and will be putting it on my home ethernet. I'd like to use a Port Replicator I with a PCMCIA ethernet card, and be able to "hot dock" it; connect and disconnect the machine from the ethernet without having to reboot Warp Connect. I talked with 3Com tech support and they stated that they'd tried this and their 3C589B card is not hot-swappable under Warp Connect. 'Tis a shame, as the promotional pricing is very tempting. I then spoke with IBM tech support and learned that IBM says that you have to physically turn the 755 off when docking/undocking the Port Replicator; making the question of hot-swapping the ethernet card a moot point. While I understand that you don't really want to connect/disconnect the expansion bus while the machine is running, it seems odd that you can't do this in a suspended state. My questions to the list are: Do you *really* have to turn off the 755, or are you likely to be safe just suspending or hibernating (suspend-to-disk) the machine? If you can just suspend the 755CX, can anyone suggest a 10base2 ethernet card that I can leave in the Port Replicator I and not have to reboot Warp Connect when docking/undocking? The IBM tech support guy said that this would work with the Dock II, but unfortunately it just doesn't fit my needs; I'd have to buy an add'l keyboard and probably a monitor to use the 755CX effectively. Thanks; I'll summarize directly-emailed replies to the list in a few days. -- Lew Jansen Systems Manager, High Energy Physics Theory lrj@hepth.cornell.edu 233 Newman Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853