No Network, 2.4.19-pre8

I've tried every fix I've found on Usenet for not having a network connection after recompiling your kernel but nothing has seemed to work. the reason i'm posting it to this list is because if I boot the old (2.2.20) kernel from lilo my network connection is fine, but if I boot the new one (2.4.19-pre8) I have no network connection at all! dmesg shows that the cards are detected perfectly, the drivers are compiled into the kernel and I also compiled in "Socket Filter" because I was told that it might work, but I still can't ping my firewall. I don't know what else to try, does anyone have any ideas? BTW its debian-woody

Please post at least the .config at the top of the kernel source tree you used to compile 2.4.19-pre8 and tell us about your hardware.
Have a look at REPORTING-BUGS for further recommendations.

LB.