It sounds like you need two things here. First, you need the module for the card loaded during bootup, and second you need ethx configured to find your ip address, etc.
Do an lsmod before and after running "netcardconfig" so you can see which modules get loaded specifically for the network. I'm assuming your network card is pci, in which case simply add a line to /etc/modules for each module that needs to be loaded for your card. It's not anything fancy - my /etc/modules file simply looks like this:
tulip
usb-uhci
acm
es1371
(It loads modules for my usb stuff, network and sound.)
Second, you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces so that it knows what your network settings are once the drivers have been loaded for the network card. For a DHCP setup, the following should work (assuming you only have one network card):
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet dhcp
Auto tells it to turn on the device (eth0 in this case), instead of simply knowing what the settings should be. iface eth0 again tells it which interface you're about to describe for it, inet is the type of network and dhcp tells it that you have a dynamic address that dhcp can find for it.
If you were to decide to go with a static ip address, you would want it to look similar to the following:
auto eth0
iface eth0 inet static
address 192.168.0.1
netmask 255.255.255.0
network 192.168.0.0
broadcast 192.168.0.255
gateway 192.168.0.2 # only needed for things like accessing the internet through a firewall.
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by: mcmurrickPosted on 2003-02-01 at 19:12:27ID: 7861367
Ok it seems I may have solved my own problem. I ran a console window and changed to root by typing "su" entered my root password and then typed "netcardconfig" at the prompt. Ethernet card is now functioning with a DHCP configured address.