NIC Not Working On Vaio PCG-992L

[Clint Harshaw]

I have a fresh install of FC1 on a Sony Vaio laptop model number 
PCG-992L. Previously, this laptop has had a dual-boot Win2000Pro and 
RH8, and later RH9 and even Mandrake at a couple of brief points. I 
wasn't using the Win side at all, so I erased the entire hd and 
installed "everything" from FC1. The installed seemed to without error.

When I try connecting to the net at my office using DHCP, I can't hit 
the net. eth0 fails on boot. I tried activating it via 
redhat-config-network and that didn't do anything.

Some output from several commands I've tried (thanks to Sombrero on 
#fedora for the help on what commands to try!) is reproduced below:

# /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82815 815 Chipset Host Bridge and 
Memory Controller Hub (rev 11)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corp. 82815 CGC [Chipset 
Graphics Controller] (rev 11)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 03)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 03)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801BAM IDE U100 (rev 03)
00:1f.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 03)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM SMBus (rev 03)
00:1f.4 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 03)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio 
(rev 03)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. Intel 537 [82801BA/BAM AC'97 Modem] (rev 03)
01:00.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB43AA22 IEEE-1394 
Controller (PHY/Link Integrated) (rev 02)
01:02.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
01:02.1 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 80)
01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet 
Controller
(rev 03)

(the following is a snippet result of lspci -v)

01:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM/CA/CAM Ethernet 
Controller
(rev 03)
         Subsystem: Intel Corp. EtherExpress PRO/100 VE
         Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 66, IRQ 9
         Memory at f4100000 (32-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
         I/O ports at 3000 [size=64]
         Capabilities: [dc] Power Management version 2

(the following is a result of modprobe eepro100)

/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/eepro100.o: 
init_module: No such device
Hint: insmod errors can be caused by incorrect module parameters, 
including invalid IO or IRQ parameters.
       You may find more information in syslog or the output from dmesg
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/eepro100.o: insmod 
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/eepro100.o failed
/lib/modules/2.4.22-1.2115.nptl/kernel/drivers/net/eepro100.o: insmod 
eepro100 failed

I experimented with the BIOS setting for Plug-n-Play Devices set at both 
Yes and No, and didn't see any change.

Does anyone have any ideas that I could try out to get the NIC to hit 
the net, or other commands I should run to get more data to better 
figure it out?

Thanks,
Clint