Major network problems with wired interface.

[agentblue]

First of all id like to say that gentoo is an amazing os,portage is an amazing technology.
Now my problem.
I have been using linux for about 8 months now and have spent a good deal of my time troubleshooting.I have managed to solve almost all my problems except these few.

I have a dfi-ln party nf3 mobo.It uses the nvidia nforce networking controller.For the whole 8 months ive been using linux it only worked part of the time,both when i used fedora and now in gentoo x86_64.Now it doesnt work at all.If i use DHCP it wont grab an address,if i set a static i get nothing at all. I am using the nforce driver for linux (latest version) as i believe forcedeth causes even more issues. I dont know why i cant connect to the internet with a static address or dhcp(i Use a linksys wrt54G router/AP) but its getting nuts.I have completely removed forcedeth from my kernel and i jus use the nvnet driver.

below is a section for eth0 from /etc/conf.d/net

config_eth0=( "192.168.1.102 broadcast 192.168.1.255 netmask 255.255.255.0" )
routes_eth0=( "default gw 192.168.1.1" )

If someone know something anything please post.
thanxs for your time

[thoughtform]

have you tried loading the driver as a module instead of as compiled in?
rc-update add net.eth0 default?
what does /etc/init.d/net restart give you?
lsmod?

[agentblue]

the driver comes from the nforce drivers package from nvidia. I am not using the generic forcedeth module at all.so no it isnt compiled in it is a module.lsmod shows the correct driver nvnet is loaded./etc/init.d/net.eth0 start gives no errors with a static ip,but if i try dhcp it wont associate.Basically the problem is that it wont associate at all.No the hardware isnt bad it works fine in windows xp as that is a dual boot machine.Its an error with the module itself or something.any one who knows anything about this issue please post.Im sicc and tired of screwing with this.