Thanks for the additional info. For what it's worth, the Linksys card you have does have eeprom for configuration on it, on the card I checked it's a tiny 8 pin 93c46 inside the footprint of the boot rom socket. You may have a lot better results getting the original settings from Linksys than I'm having getting them from HP for my nic (unfortunately, different chip set so your settings would not help me). While you're talking to them, try to learn if there are seeing a lot of reports of this problem in the last month or two. They might even be interested in what is causing it.