its built on a MSI 970A-G46 motherboard and the issue involves the built in LAN Realtek port with latest drivers from MSI site.
Im trying to get the machine on the internet with my old pelican wireless 360 adapter. The pelican wireless 360 adapter is configured and setup properly for my wifi network. If i connect it via Ethernet cable to my ps3 or my macbook and tell them to configure via DHCP they get IP addresses and get on the internet fine.
With the built in LAN port on the MSI board i get nothing, if i configure the IP manually with an address in the proper range it gets on the internet fine. I thought maybe there is somthing wrong with the NIC itself so i put in an old HD and downloaded the netinstaller for debian to see if it would grab an IP on its own during the install and that worked i was able to download and install debian without issue i did not need to manually enter the IP. So i guess that means the NIC is working fine, which leaves windows or driver issues.