Basic Ethernet config Help Needed

[Abdul Aziz <aaziz@lineone.net>]

Hi all. Sorry if this is a bit long. I'm running Slink 2.1 (r2) and
trying to get a 3Com900 ethernet (PCI) card working. I've done the
following:
Compiled driver from source (D Becker) and put this 3c90x.o in
/lib/modules/2.0.36/net
Added alias eth0 3com90x to /etc/modutils/alias (at the end - is this
correct?) and ran update-modules.

Ran insmod 3c90x.o (giving the path; no errors were reported).
Ran ifconfig eth0  address (I used 192.168.1.1) - ifconfig after this
seemed to show all OK: it showed both lo and eth0 (bcast 192.168.1.255;
mask 255.255.255.0).

Added lines to /etc/hosts ; /etc/networks and /etc/resolv.conf.

My questions are: do I need to add anything to /etc/init.d/network and
if so, what? and is there anything else I need to do to get the machine
to recognize the card at boot?
I tried using what I've done, and nothing happens - ping 192.168.1.1
gives network unreachable.

Thanks in advance.