laptop ethernet nic non-functional after upgrading kernel via YOU

I hope someone can help me. I am running SUSE 9.1 on my emachines m6805 in 64-bit mode. I recently used YOU to update the kernel from the kernel shipped with 9.1 up to 2.6.5-7.108. After this upgrade and re-booting, my laptop does not appear to be initializing the ethernet adapter properly. I have been using DHCP to configure the IP parms. Prior to the update, this worked just fine. After the update, DHCP times out and does not set the ip information correctly. I thought I saw something on this list previously, but cannot find it now. Any ideas/help? Pete