Please help! Ethernet not working on ADMtek NC100

[Arjai]

I installed Mint Lisa via a CD I burned. All went well until I rebooted, after install. It booted up fine but my 'Wired Connection' would not connect. I looked at the MAC address it was using, then did an 'ifconfig -a' and the results were identical to the wired settings MAC.

I've replaced the, working, cat-5 cable, twice. The cable is plugged into a Netgear router but, I have it plugged into no.3, it's not lit like my other wired connections.

The RJ-45 on the computer shows solid green and orange LED's, which leads me to believe it is functional, it was during install. I tried a couple of reboot's with no better results.

I'm sure there is an answer to this but, I am clueless. It's my first toe-dip into a Linux OS. I wanted to set this old P4 E-machines up as a full-time cruncher and Linux, I was told, runs WCG/BOINC more efficiently than Windows. Plus, I have a few online and offline friends that love it, i.e. Ubuntu. I chose Mint because of the age of the machine and on the recommendation of another Cruncher with a P4 computer.

[xenopeek]

Can you run the following command from the terminal, and share the output here? Will tell us a bit about your network chip.

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inxi -SNxc 0

[Arjai]

System:
Kernal 3.0.0-12 generic i686 (32 bit g.c.c. 4.6.1)
Desktop LXDE (openbox 3.5.0)
Distro Linux Mint 12 LXDE
Network:
Card ADMtek NC100 Network Everywhere Fast Ethernet 10/100
driver tulip v: 1.1.15 port 2000 bus ID 02.02.0

I hope this means something!