Okay, I booted the rc1 live image, and was able to get the following
output from dhclient:


Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.5
Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:1a:a0:fd:97:49
Sending on   LPF/eth0/00:1a:a0:fd:97:49
Sending on   Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.


I'm not sure why it's not able to talk to the DHCP server (I'm online
now after rebooting into Fedora, so it's not something simple like a
loose cable) but this looks much more solvable than the previous
situation. Could it be a driver problem? If so, I wouldn't expect it
to correctly ID the card's MAC address, but who knows. :-P

FWIW, this is a Dell Inspiron 1420n laptop; under Fedora, lspci reports:
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5906M
Fast Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02)

There are other things I need to do right now, but later today I plan
to actually install from the 7.0 image, and tinker some more.

-- 
William Tracy
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http://www.cplug.org

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your
right to say it."
    -- Evelyn Beatrice Hall, frequently mis-attributed to Voltaire



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