hi
i have a pentium 2 processor, with a 80 gig hard drive, 256 mb ram, and
i have partitioned my hd for 40 gig windows xp, and 40 gig(with partitions withen) red hat linux 9. my main problem is that my rh9 cannot recognize an ip address for linux. on my win side i easily get an ip address. i get a bad driver every time i reinstall linux and when i uninstall a driver for the ether net and then reinstall the driver i get the correct ethernet driver but rh9 cannot inistialeze the driver. someone help me! please

Do you know what the make and model of your ethernet card?
If it is integrated in to the motherboard then post its make and model number.

What type of internet connection are you using? Where is the PC atttempting to getting its IP address from?

i have a 3com ethernet card.
i am using road runner and it is getting the ip address from a cable modem.
at one point in time i had the ip address but after i reinstalled linux( for some reasons) it stopp ed picking it up.

this is info on my rh9 machine:

General
(1) GenuineIntel Pentium II (Deschutes) 348 MHZ

Arch: i686 Cache: 512 KB
Vendor: GenuineIntel Memory: 256 MB
Stepping: 2
Family: 6 Swap: 509 MB
DMI Info
Vendor: Â Bios: Intel Corp.

4S4EB2X0.05A.0003.P02 - 11/19/98
System: Â
Product: SE440BX-2 Asset Tag: Â
Chassis: Â
Board: IMS285002342
Networking
Hostname: 24-90-118-185.nyc.rr.com
IP Address: 24.90.118.185

Interface IP Address Netmask Broadcast Hardware Address Driver Module
eth0 24.90.118.185 255.255.248.00 255.255.255.255 00:a0:cc:d3:18:c9 tulip
lo 127.00.00.01 255.00.00.00 127.255.255.255 00:00:00:00:00:00 loopback
Storage
Description Bus Device Physical
Maxtor 6Y080P0 IDE hda 158816/16/63
Video
Description Bus Vendor Driver
Voodoo Banshee PCI 3Dfx Interactive, Inc. Card Voodoo Banshee (generic)
Audio
Description Bus Vendor Driver
DS1L Audio PCI Yamaha Corporation ymfpci
USB
Description Bus Vendor Driver
USB UHCI Root Hub USB unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB PCI Intel Corp. usb-uhci
Misc
Description Bus Vendor Driver
440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge PCI Intel Corp. agpgart
440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge PCI Intel Corp. ignore
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA PCI Intel Corp. unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE PCI Intel Corp. unknown
82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI PCI Intel Corp. unknown
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as u see the information on the network picked up a ip address but after i reinstalled rh9 none of this info showed up again. please i need internet.
i need help!

Can you post the output of the command
/sbin/lsmod

This will show if the ethernet card module is loading.

Also post the output of the command
/sbin/ifconfig