Networking question...

I did a dmesg, lspci, procinfo, and discover, and
redirected output to files for later viewing.  Output
from dmesg with lines pertaining to the network card
are as follows:

natsemi.c:v1.07 1/9/2001 .....otherstuffhere
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 00:12.0
eth0: NatSemi DP8381[56] at 0xd08c8000, <macaddress>,
IRQ 11
eth0: autonegotiation did not complete in 4000 usec.
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

output from discover is as follows:
unknown unknown
unknown unknown
Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5237 USB
Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI South Bridge
Audio
Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533 PCI to ISA Bridge
[Aladdin IV]
unknown unknown
unknown unknown
Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M5229 IDE
Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
National Semiconductor Corporation DP83810 10/100
Ethernet
(followed by 4 more pairs of "unknown")

lspci output is as follows:
00:00.0 Host bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
device cab0 (rev 13)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc: Unknown
device 700f (rev 01)
00:02.0 USB Controller: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]
M5237 USB (rev 03)
00:06.0 Multimedia audio controller: Acer Laboratories
Inc. [ALi] M5451 PCI South Bridge Audio (rev 02)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M1533
PCI to ISA Bridge [Aladdin IV]
00:08.0 Modem: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]: Unknown
device 5457
00:0a.0 CardBus bridge: 02 Micro, Inc.: Unknown device
6972
00:10.0 IDE interface: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi]
M5229 IDE (rev c4)
00:11.0 Bridge: Acer Laboratories Inc. [ALi] M7101 PMU
00:12.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor
Corporation DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies
Inc: Unknown device 4336

procinfo output (only the irq's) as follows:
irq  0: 32676 timer
irq  1:  1327 keyboard
irq  2:     0 cascade[4]
irq  5:     0 ALi Audio Accelerato
irq  6:     2
irq  9:   197 usb-ohci
irq 11:     0 eth0
irq 14:     4 ide0
irq 15:   521 ide1

I tried networking at work (where i don't rely on
dhcp) and the trivial-net-setup allowed me to give the
eth0 device the ip, subnet, etc... and it added the
route to the default gateway, but i still couldn't
ping anything.  This network device physically works
on windows and other linux live cd systems, so I
wonder if there is something that needs to be done
extra on lnx-bbc?

If there are other things I should include (other
outputs, or an lspci -v or -vv... etc.) I am more than
happy to include them.  It appears to be loading the
correct driver, it just isn't getting the networking
setup correctly.  I did add a nameserver in t-n-s, but
when I pinged / tracerouted / etc... I was using a
known working IP to test with... and got no response. 
eth0 was up, and the subnet and all looked ok, but it
wouldn't ping or anything else.

Thanks for any help,
Stefan

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