DHCP issues with FC2

[Wingnut64]

I just installed Fedora Core 2 on an old 300MHz machine I had around, and I can't for the life of me get it on the internet. I have a Surfboard SB5100 cable modem with a built in DHCP server. My XP box can get online with it just fine, with the address 67.85.201.xxx, but my linux box does not recive an IP. I've tried manualy assigning one, but I can't get it to on the internet, or even talking to my other machine on the same local net (XP, linux, and modem plugged into the same hub). I've run the installed dhclient , but it fails to recive a DHCP offer. I ran ethereal and saw a machine at 10.83.192.1 sending out DHCP offers, and I know that my linux box's NIC works because I can see traffic to/from my windows machine.

I told the installer that I would use BOOTP/DHCP, and my /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts file for eth0 lists
onboot = yes
bootproto = dhcp
so I'm not sure what the problem is. This is the first time I've use DHCP, so maybe I'm missing something. Also, I'm running command line only.

[Icarus]

Are you able to bring the NIC up at all?
ifconfig eth0 up
then ifconfig to check all your network status'es

Could you have a firewall active that is blocking your DHCP requests?

[Wingnut64]

Yes, my NIC comes up fine, it recives data and has an IPv6 address, but no IPv4. The only firewall on the network is a software one on my XP machine.