Hey Harry -

I should have mentioned that this is running inside of a VMWare instance. I meant to do so and just forgot. I don't have any reason to suspect that the hardware is failing. More likely, I think, that the dhcp server isn't responding to the machine's request. What I don't understand is why. That said, though, running netcardconfig did exactly what I hoped it would do. eth0 is back online and I have a static IP.

Thanks very much for your help.