internet connection and genkernel

[Rydog2987]

i tried to instasll windows 98 on my gentoo partition i did everything by the manual, but instead of doing what i told the windows install to do it decided to reformat the entire drive randomly, so i lost my gentoo install. So after i got windows installed i reinstall gentoo using genkernel to compile my kernel which now i kind of regret. When i first loaded up my internet connection work fine because i emerged openoffice and looked up a bit of information, but after i restarted my computer after emerging openoffice, my internet connection just stopped working. So i figured maybe it had the wrong driver installed, i checked the kernel and it was the wrong driver, so i put the ethernet driver that i used last installation of gentoo which was the realtek 8139 driver. I did the command for the 2.4 kernel which i am using, make dep && make bzImage modules modules_install. When i rebooted my system the internet still did not work. Can someone please help me i am using an accton technologies nic card.

[dd-209]

Did you try "ifconfig" to see if the nic is installed.
Did you also configure your network settings (dhcp/fixed ip)???

[Rydog2987]

ifconfig returned erros and /etc/conf.d/net is configured for dhcp, im going to try and emerge genkernel again, i might have screwed something up changing it.