device a system bus 228 links the main memory 220 the peripheral device id 130 the volatile memory 226 and the ccd controller 222 the ccd controller is coupled to the combined ccd and lens assembly 224 between the multi mode chip and the peripheral device address and data connections from respectively address and data buffers 210 a b couple the two devices an additional coupling is provided by control bus 218 which links the ccd controller 222 to the dma controller 206 within the multi mode chip 140 a a multi mode chip identifier 142 a is present the chip id in an embodiment of the invention is fabricated as a read only register which is part of the cpu 200 of the chip in an other embodiment the chip id may be stored in local memory 202 the chip identifier as well as the device identifier 130 is utilized to identify the make and or model number of the multi mode chip and the device to the server 102 the identifier need not in other words be unique to the device rather to a group of devices having a common make and or model number there are three phases to the initialization of the multi mode chip and peripheral device these phases correspond to the packets 110 150 a d and 170 a d shown in respectively fig1 a d the current invention provides for a combined device which can be configured remotely over a network from a starting configuration devoid of either a unique network address or an operating system in the first phase of operation the local memory contains only a group identifier 242 and kernel bios 144.