Networking :: 3com 3c589 IP not found



I have a Frugal install on the Dell LM p 133
On boot from Grub the 3com card is found and the light goes on solid. The
./network start eth0  Green Solid...later in the boot the dhcp call (background) is called and the light goes out and I can not get the card to connect. I have attempted to use DHCP and Static IP's using the netcardconfig utility.

Can I alter the grub commands to not have the script run the dhcp background call.

This device was working earlier today when run from the live CD can anyone suggest what I should check?
Add the boot option nodhcp to grub menu.lst
Quote (roberts @ Jan. 31 2007,11:50)
Add the boot option nodhcp to grub menu.lst

The light on the nic is solid but no ip ... netcardconfig failed too.
I'm not there yet.
Quote (roberts @ Jan. 31 2007,11:50)
Add the boot option nodhcp to grub menu.lst

So I'm thinking that I went down the wrong road.

I used lsmod from a terminal win sudo su and will type it across since it's not able to be pasted here perhaps a typo here and their

Module                    size            used by       not tainted
soundcore                3428          0                 (auto clean)
mousevdev              3832          0                 (unused)
HID                         223772        0                 (unused)
input                       3168          0                  [mousedev hid]
usbcore                    57824        0                  [hid]
unionfs                     68800        7
af_packet                  13544        0                 (auto clean)
nls_iso8859-1            2844          0                 (auto clean)
nls_cp437            4348               0                 (auto clean)
serial                         52100        0                 (auto clean)
3c589_cs                   7844         0                
ds                              6536         2                 [3c589-cs]
i82365                       12580        2          
pcmcia_core               39840        0                [i82365 3c589-cs]
apm                           7968          1
rtc                              7036           0                 (auto clean)
cloop                           8740          2
ide-cd                        28512          0
ide-scsi                      8816            1      

This is on a frugal install 3.2
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Ok, I need to confess. I had a bad network cable and spent a week trying to understand why DSL wasn't working.

Of course it is working fine since, I replaced the cable... my bad.
ps how do i change my screen name?  :(
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