Help with Ethernet on 8.1 vs 7.5

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I have my Q605 working fine with open transport 1.3 on my 7.5.3 system. It gets an address via DHCP with ethernet. On another freshly installed image with 8.1 i can't get TCP/IP to get the DHCP server address. Not even in static address works. Any ideas of why it would not work under 8.1? this is with the Apple 10BaseT LC PDS card

thanks