during the boot process i noticed it said *netw dev eth0 detected ....(backgrounding) *. when the boot is finished and i try to start fx it cant connect. and when i run netcardconfig i get the question about dhcp and answer yes it says failed. so when i try again and this time answer no i get ip and mask and more filled in and i can just click to confirm these values. after this when i try fx it does still not connect, but when i run netcardconfig again and this time answer yes i get: *dhcp broadcast from device eth0 OK.*

so it seems i must run netcardconfig two times and first answer NO to the question about DHCP and then run it a second time answering YES to the same question after i have confirmed ip and mask etc to get connected to the internet.