Help! installed 10.5 - now no internet!

Hello
Up until yesterday I had a G4 tower running 10.3.9. The built-in ethernet card died sometime ago, so at the recommendation of the apple discussion boards I purchased and installed the Belkin brand PCI ethernet card - worked great for years.
Now, I have recently updated to 10.5, and my card will no longer function whatsoever. the computer does recognize that the card is there, but despite being hooked up to the working internet (i tested the cable modem and the cord - both work on my crappy PC laptop) the status says that the "cable is not plugged in" what can I do? i really would like NOT to have to downgrade just get my internet back.
thanks in advance
Jen

It is possible the belkin device needs a new driver to work under leopard.
Can you confirm what chipset the belkin device is using. In my experience the only cards that work flawlessly under any build of the mac os are devices that use a realtek chipset.
Given that you can purchase and generic branded NIC that has a realtek chipset for as little as £5 then you may just want to try a new NIC.
Failing that you could try and copy the ethernet driver from tiger and put in your leapard extensions directory.

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