I havent been able to determine what all the settings on the old nic were, besides the IP, but in the configuration of the console, there are multiple entities listed, none of which I recognize as being a a NIC. At the moment I have no access to the gui, only the console, and the text is so large on it that I am not able to see more than a few lines of the last output. After the initial start up, the system goes into a failure, again I dont know what the failure is because of the text size problem. That is why I was thinking of just doing a fresh install, but I dont want to re-import all my media, that took weeks..