Can't start network on laptop

Hi; I am just now trying to set 7.1 on my laptop and I am running into serious problems with network config. Xircom PCMCIA net card is running w/o probs, but only when I setup a static IP. When I try to use DHCP client setting, nothing happens after reboot - no network. Then I can run 'rcdhclient start eth0' and the network is started with DHCP. I have even tried to append the 'scheme=SuSE' to LILO (set to use dhcp), again no success with it. I have went through the boot log and can't understand why is the dhclient set to start first on init level 3 and _then_ the cardmngr. But even then there is no trace about starting dhclient on init level 3 in boot.msg. Any ideas, please? Jakub