Quote Originally Posted by beetlebz
when i ran netcardconfig it said:
"sending DHCP broadcast from device eth0Operation failed. failed."

when i ran ifconfig eth0 everything was zero except for dropped received packets, which was 378.

anything else ya need to know?
In a console window the output of :

lspci -v

dmesg | grep eth0

lsmod

and the model number of the network card (should be in the output of lspci if not include).