Thank all of you for your help.

Turns out it was the ethernet port. Would not have thought so as computer is 2 months.old and was turned of the night of storm. Also connected to surge protector.

A) In the past I always did Simple Network Setup and in seconds I was connected.

B) Yes, another computer with Windows XP has internet connection with same router.

My computer has no OS on the hard drive. I use Puppy live CD only.

It just hit me that my son is moving out today and he will be taking the router we have been using. We will be hooking up differently and with a different router. Hopefully i will regain connection. But this is what i get with ifconfig -a. eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:30:67:E9:72:4E inet addr:...

Yes have tried both Simple Network Setup and Network Wizard.
The same failure even loading without savefile also.

The other night because of a storm we turned of the router. Since then have not been able to connect to the internet. Doing simple network setup get this: Failed to connect to wired network 'eth0' The network does exist, however failed to negotiate with the DHCP server. Have also tried entering stat...

The other night because of a storm we turned of the router. Since then have not been able to connect to the internet. Doing simple network setup get this: Failed to connect to wired network 'eth0' The network does exist, however failed to negotiate with the DHCP server. Have also tried entering stat...

The other night because of a storm we turned of the router. Since then have not been able to connect to the internet. Doing simple network setup get this: Failed to connect to wired network 'eth0' The network does exist, however failed to negotiate with the DHCP server. Have also tried entering stat...