I recently removed win98 from my Dell Dimension XPS T450 desktop (yea...finally) and installed fc4. At this time I am unable to obtain an IP address from my dhcp router. I can, however, obtain an IP address for my laptop which I am currently using to post.

I looked over several posts without finding anything particularly useful. I am hoping that someone will recognize the problem as I am relatively new to Linux. Here are some useful outputs. Thanks in advance.

Fair warning, I will try to reply as soon as possible but I am not around my desktop except during the evenings and weekends.

# dhclient eth0
[Nothing happens]

# route
Kernal IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 * 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

# ifconfig eth0
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:50:BA:5E:5F:A4
inet6 addr: fe::250:baff:fe5e:5fa4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:78 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0b) TX bytes:20016 (19.5 KiB)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x1000

# dmesg | grep -e eth0
eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1000, 00:50:ba:5e:5f:a4, IRQ 11
eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C'
eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
eth0: noIPv6 routers present

# lsmod | grep 8139
8139too 30017 0
mii 5441 1 8139too

Try resetting the router.

I'll be damned. I thought I had tried every permutation of shutting off my computer and router. To think I have spent so much time sifting through forums...

Thanks.