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[AMDave]

This was bugging me as I knew I had seen a definative work on this a short while ago. Through playing with various distro's over the last year or two I have hapened across so many useful pages, so it is likely that I will have fun finding some of them again.

Vaughan,
rather than go through the hassle of finding a way of transferring info from a machine that won't network give this page a kick
Ubuntu Networking for Basic and Advanced Users

/ed- below the pictures for the "static" address setting you will find the heading "Configuring DHCP address for your network card" I think this is the one you need -ed/

I found it useful at least once (possibly more than that).
If following this procedure doesn't pin down the problem we can go into the h/w analysis on the CLI.

That's twice I have used "CLI" - short for Command Line Interface. A more generic term that includes both the traditional DOS prompt in windows as well as the Linux/Unix terminal command interface.