RH 8.0 - can't get IP from D-Link Gateway

[Doug Robson <cdrobsonjr yahoo com>]

Dear Helpful Linux Friends, 

I am once again stymied having just installed the
latest version of RedHat. I went through hades last
time (7.2) getting an IP address assigned to my
computer from my D-Link DI-701 Residential Gateway. 
That time it turned out needing to use a different
version of the driver for my NIC (tulip_old instead of
the one the O/S chose - tulip). 
This time, neither version of the tulip driver will
work. 

I got so frustrated, I changed NIC's to a 3com 3c595. 
This is not working either. 
Doing an ifconfig -a shows the card, but without an IP
address assigned. 
Doing a dhclient shows that requests are being sent
out, but the computer is not acknowledging the offers.


Networking on Linux should not be so difficult.
--sigh-- 

If I assign a static IP to the card, I can ping my
gateway, so I know that both the card and the gateway
are connected. 

What is the newest secret regarding DHCP and RH 8.0
and network set-up files? 

Somebody with the magic mojo help me out please.



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