The invention relates to a method and to a circuit arrangement for carrying out initialisation/registration steps for a device (HG1), in particular a household appliance, which can be connected to a network (HB) wherein the first initialisation/registration of the device (HG1) is controlled by adding an initialisation signal on the actuation of a mechanical circuit device (SL) and wherein an address clearly identifying the device (HG1) in the network (HB) is allocated to said device (HG1) for initialisation/registration. In order to carry out the initialisation/registration, a control state signal which corresponds to circuit state of circuit device (SL) is stored in a flag memory (MS) which is associated with said device after the first initialisation/registration of the device (HG1); after stopping and then restarting the device (HG1) in said network (HB), the adjusting state of the circuit device (SL) is compared to the memory state of the flag memory (MS) which corresponds to a determined combination function. A novel initialisation/registration of the device (HG1) in the network (HB) takes place only in the presence of a determined, fixed combination relation between the adjusting state of the circuit device (SL) of the device (HG1) and the memory state of the separate flag memory (MS).