Well, I sorta took the easy way out and installed redhat which had driver support for the SiS 900 chipset..

But after a bit of configuration, I was able to ping the router (This is while I was in overclockix).

I am positive it was not the port, becuase that is the same one I had been using for a couple months on my rig, and am using now. But mainly its purpose was to fold, and I got it folding..but I will try to get some more info on it later...if I can get the net working on it..