for some reason no matter what i do i keep getting a 169.xxx ip address.

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my spec is the following:
dual booting vista 64 bit home premium
amd phenom triple core 2.1 ghz
4 gig ddr2 ram
nvidia gforce 8200 (onboard video) but i also have a discrete ati radeon HD 4650 low profile card installed
640gb sata hard drive
nvidia nforce onboard ethernet/lan
realtek hd audio
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i'm using the lawlessppc 10.5.4 build and the latest .13n NFORCELAN driver from here. everything else seems to be working fine. the onboard lan works just fine in vista.

the driver seems to install fine. the device id reads as 0760. there are no other lan drivers in /extensions. i just drag the .kext into kext helper and reboot. then i get a popup saying my system has detected a network card. i head to network preferences and set it up as best as i can (it should be all automatic dhcp). but no matter how many times i try to refresh it, i keep getting a random 169.xxx address.

i have a linksys router as well but i've tried bypassing that and going directly to my cable modem but theres no change. i've tried unplugging the computer and ethernet cord for ~30 seconds and then booting back up again and i still am stuck with a 169.xxx address? i've tried manually setting ips. i can see its mac address in network preferences which starts with 00: so that seems to be ok too. when i unplug the cord the ip address goes blank and network preferences tells me its 'unplugged' so i know things seem to be somewhat talking to each other.

what else can i try here?!?

no clue if this log helps:
edit: i also just went through my router logs and this is what i keep seeing (that mac address is the correct one):

repeated over and over. it looks like the onboard lan can reach my router no problem but for whatever reason keeps refusing an ip? i tried just changing the ip manually but it doesn't work. i have no such issues in vista. strange.