Hi, Are those the Broadcom NICs that you are using on the server motherboard? What OS are you using? You may need to download a driver pack from Dell to get this working on Windows Server 2003. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org [mailto:blind-sysadmins-bounces@lists.hodgsonfamily.org] On Behalf Of Stewart Hamling Sent: 11 September 2010 02:47 To: 'Blind sysadmins list' Subject: [Blind-sysadmins] Dell Power Edge 1850 server Hello all, I cannot get this server to communicate with my home network. ipconfig /renew returns a message saying "The operation failed as no adapter is in a state permissible for this operation". The device is flagged as "Working properly". Some guidance would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance, Stewart. _______________________________________________ Blind-sysadmins mailing list Blind-sysadmins@lists.hodgsonfamily.org http://lists.hodgsonfamily.org/listinfo/blind-sysadmins