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Installation/network card problem

Hello all,
A few weeks ago, I got an Xircom CardBus Ethernet 10/100 PCMCIA card off eBay. I had an old Etch unstable netinst CD lying about, so I installed Etch on my old laptop using the CD, installing over the network without any problems. Now work has given me an old Dell Inspiron 2500 laptop and I need to put Debian on it. I have installed XP on the Dell laptop and it works perfectly fine with the network card. Now it's time to install Debian onto the Dell. I couldn't find the CD, so I downloaded a fresh copy of the latest netinst installer image and burnt it onto CD. The disc label is "Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r0 "Etch" - Official i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070407-11:29" The Dell laptop booted up fine, and it detected the network card: 

kernel: xircom cardbus adaptor found, registering as eth0, using irq5
But when the installer tries to get an IP address from my server, it can't get one: 

dhclient: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:10:a4:e2:74:16
dhclient: Sending on LPF/eth0/00:10:a4:e2:74:16
dhclient: Sending on Socket/fallback/fallback-net
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
dhclient: DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
dhclient: No DCHPOFFERS received.
dhclient: No working leases in persistent database.
dhclient: Exiting.

But when looking at my server logs, I can see:

May 22 16:18:45 destiny dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.107
May 22 16:18:48 destiny dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.107
May 22 16:20:45 destiny dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.107
May 22 16:20:48 destiny dhcpd: DHCPINFORM from 192.168.1.107
May 22 16:22:57 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:22:58 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:02 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:02 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:08 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:08 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:18 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:18 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:30 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:30 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:40 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:23:40 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:51:46 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:51:47 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:51:54 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:51:54 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:03 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:03 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:16 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:16 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:24 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:24 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:37 destiny dhcpd: DHCPDISCOVER from 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0 May 22 16:52:37 destiny dhcpd: DHCPOFFER on 192.168.1.107 to 00:10:a4:e2:74:16 via eth0
Of course, the installer then fails saying "Your network is probably not using the DHCP protocol. Alternatively, the DHCP server may be slow or some network hardware is not working properly."
I tried entering an address manually but it doesn't work either. I can't ping the laptop from any computer in the network.
The network card worked fine with my old laptop with the unstable Debian etch installer, and this laptop with XP, but not the latest Debian etch installer. How do I fix this problem? 

Thanks very much for your time in advance!

Regards - Piers
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