Sorry, I didn't see the networking section. My Bad.

Ok, well It's working right now (I'm on it as we speak) so I can only give you some info.

I tried netcardconfig when I had the problem but didn't know the correct settings to put in there. I thought maybe it was the defalt ones so I just kept hitting return and it said it didn't work.

ifconfig came up with this: (keep in mind it's working right now)

Code:
eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:20:78:B0:9E:E9
          inet addr:24.224.128.170  Bcast:24.224.128.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::220:78ff:feb0:9ee9/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:225315 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:25504 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:4133 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:60846426 (58.0 MiB)  TX bytes:3183685 (3.0 MiB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0xcc00

lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
          RX packets:408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:1599224 (1.5 MiB)  TX bytes:1599224 (1.5 MiB)
I have a cable connection, without a router just a splitter so that it goes to both my brother and my computers. It goes in through an ethernet card, no USB or anything.