Ok folks, Having been a System admin for years, mostly dealing with Solaris and hpux as well as other OS's Fedora has taxed my patience with setting up the network card.
I must assume there is a major difference between Linux and most of the major Unix OS's out there in this department.

Here's my setup.

Asus A8N-VM motherboard with integrated network card, sound card.
AMD 3000 64bit processor, 1 gig ram, 160 gb hard drive.
DVD-RW and a older digiview monitor.

DSL router speedstream set up as follows
192.168.254.254 gateway
192.168.254.0/1 - 20 as addys available for dhcp

1 network solutions 8port ethernet hub

1 windoze dell pent 2 400 mhz lapper


Windoze lapper connects fine with router and internet gateway.

Linux box problem.

Installation goes fine, I setup card to obtain address by dhcp which is handled by router

What i get is fail on initializing eth0.
I have installed the correct driver for my ethernet card supplied by my manufacturer.

When i try to configure eth0 to use dhcp, i get error that it could not assign a ip address to the card.
When i configure eth0 manually using ifconfig, I use 192.168.254.3 bc 192.168.254.255 then bring the interface up

I check routing table and 192.168.254.0, 192.168.254.254 is default gateway. I add 192.168.254.3 to the routing table and point it to 192.168.254.254 gateway.

I do a ping on 192.168.254.3 and get response back, but no response when I try to ping the gateway.

Does anyone have any information on how to get this card working using the dhcp? Believe me i have tried for two days now to do it, including installing core 4, core 5 which is another story several times.

Core 5, i got it to successfully utilize dhcp once and don't remember exactly what packages i selected to get that. Only problem is that when it booted up to the login screen, the mouse pointer was invisible. Went to configure mouse, and for some dumb reason they removed the mouse configuration utility from core 5.

HELP!

Ok,

I reinstalled core 4 again, and went and found the latest driver i couuld find at nvidia, and installed version 1.07 chipset driver and 1.0-13 drivers, rebooted then configured the ethernet card again and it took it this time.

It seems that the drivers i core5 as well as the media the manufacturer sent me would work intermittantly.

Believe me i have tried almost every driver i could find to install until i lucked up on this latest driver.

Now the only problem i have left is why is the mouse going invisible in Core 5.