[newbie] DHCP client

[Paul Sharp]

Hi, From a brand new newbie to Mandrake.  Previously used Caldera.  Have a Microsoft network neighborhood at home with half dozen computers and an old Pentium 233 box running win98 and Sygate Home Network as a gateway with a cable modem.    Goal to replace that gateway with a linux box eventually. But for now I am in a Linux network class and I am trying get a Mandrake Linux box to work as a client on the existing network.    Configured the network card with draknet in Xwindows.  Set it up with no IP or mask and the DHCP box checked.  Gave it the gateway address of 192.168.0.1 where the Sygate resides.  Sygate provides a DHCP server at that address.   It all ends up with eth0 running but it never gets an IP address assigned to it.  However, when the dhcpcd starts up it gets valid information from Sygate which appears in  /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info   Some how something is missing because this info never shows up in the Linux routing table or in the info provided by ifconfig -a for eth0 and thus there in no network access.   If I configure with a static IP address such as 192.168.0.33 I have Internet access and can browse the web.     What is missing??     Regards Paul