[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

[Steve]

I'm not too new to linux...I've been messing around with it for awhile but
I still don't really know very much about it.  I've installed a lot of
different distributions but I've been stuck with Mandrake for awhile now
but the internet doesn't work.  I have that AT&T Cable Modem...it used to
be the @home service but I think they may have changed it now.  Before, the
static IP address used to work when put it in manually with the other
distributions, but it doesn't work now with any of them (distributions).
So, my question is, which distribution has the easiest DHCP configuration
if they're not all the same?...I've never configured it before but now I
guess I have to if I want to use the internet without crashing (I'm stuck
on my windows partition for surfing, email, and the sort). Or probably a
better question is which DHCP configuration distibution has actual DHCP
that work...I've tried it with my Mandrake but keeps doing some kind of
error as if it can't find an IP address at all.  Any help in plain english
is wonderful.  Thanks a lot.  (I've already called AT&T, but they don't
have support for Linux....bummer!)

Steve