oh wait, I forgot to give you the error message ifupdown has been giving me. 
It will help!

bmike1@2[bmike1]$ sudo ifup eth0
/etc/network/interfaces:34: duplicate interface
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
bmike1@2[bmike1]$ sudo ifup /dev/eth0
/etc/network/interfaces:34: duplicate interface
ifup: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
bmike1@2[bmike1]$ sudo ifdown /dev/eth0
/etc/network/interfaces:34: duplicate interface
ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
bmike1@2[bmike1]$ sudo ifdown eth0
/etc/network/interfaces:34: duplicate interface
ifdown: couldn't read interfaces file "/etc/network/interfaces"
bmike1@2[bmike1]$

On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:27 am, you wrote:
> no one here sugggested I do the ifdown/up thing but I did try it . In any
> casegoogling found dhcp3-client and it's webpage says
>
>  'Cable modem users likely need this or another dhcp client
>  'to successfully connect to the network. '
>
> so I am downloading it (apt-get) and we'll see if that works.
>
> Don't worry about half following the progress.... any help I get is greatly
> appreciated.
>
> On Sunday 05 February 2006 09:01 am, Darrin Chandler wrote:
> > First off, I've only half followed your progress, so you may have tried
> > everything below already...
> >
> > Try "ifdown eth0" before "ifup eth0" and see if ifup works then. If it
> > still gives errors then it sounds like somethings wrong there. I don't
> > know Mepis, btw.
> >
> > If that stuff doesn't work, you should still be able to do "ifconfig
> > eth0 up" and get somewhere.
> >
> > After eth0 is up, then you *should* be able to do "dhclient eth0" to get
> > an IP address for that interface through dhcp. ASSUMING that all your
> > network setup is correct then ifup will do this for you, but I think
> > that's NOT the case here.
> >
> > When you try "dhclient eth0" it should print some progress messages, or
> > errors.
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