The fix that Glen suggested was the magic key!  With a complete physical
removal and reboot, shutdown, re-install and reboot, the card was
recognized properly and now has a adapter address.  It appears to be
working properly.  (It was a D_LINK card!) Thanks Glen.

Doug

At 12/8/99 09:59 AM , Glen L. Bowes wrote:
>My guess is that this is actually a D-LINK DE528 PCI NIC. We use these in
>cable modem installations and it's very common for the adapter address to
>become all 0's. If the D-LINK drivers aren't installed, Windows identifies
>the NIC as a Realtek.
>
>D-LINK suggests physically removing the NIC from the system, reboot, shut
>down, and reinstall. If this fails, the adapter is likely no good.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>This is the results of ipconfig /all
>(He only has one physical ethernet card- Realtek):
>
>...
>
>          IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0
>
>...

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