Caldera OpenLinux 2.4 Network problems

I decided to get all my spare bits together and make another comp.

I got a mobo with the i430VX chipset running a Cyrix166mx CPU.

I installed Windows98se (mainly to use the dos part with some dos TCP/IP tools).
The network card works and finds and connects to my other comps.

The card is a "32-BIT IO MODE PCI ETHERNET ADAPTER" based on the Realtek RTL8029 chip.

I installed Caldera OpenLinux eDesktop 2.4. It didn't complain when installing (not about the nic anyway.)

I can't ping any other computer on my net. It pings localhost (127.0.01). It can't ping its own hostname or IP (192.168.0.3), it says network unreachable. And obviously cannot pull an IP from my Win2k DHCP comp or even when I boot the DHCP comp in Redhat, again serving DHCP.

When I run COAS, I can see eth0 and all the ip and stuff bound to it, but still nothing seems to work. cant figure out what is wrong.

Any help would be apreciated.

Thanx.



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Actually, if I set the ip manually it seems to work, I can ping my other comps and vice versa. (don't know why that wasn't happening before.)

The problem comes when I try to get DHCP to work. My other win98/WinNT box manages to pull an IP from the Win2k box. The Caldera box, when booted into Win98 also manages to get an IP and successfully get onto the network. They seem to work even if the Win2k box is booted into Redhat. Its just this caldera linux that fails to get in IP.

If I try setting eth0 to DHCP and running 'ifup eth0', it doesn't get a response from DHCP server. Before I thought it might be an IRQ problem, but since it works with a static IP, I haven't got a clue to what is wrong...

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