Help: Network card stopped coming up - MDK 10.1

Hi,
I had a fully working MDK 10.1 (OE) laptop (Compaq Evo N600c) connected to
the int (2/1/05), when I ernet via the network card.
The MDK 10.1 is fully updated (actually, the problem appeared first after a
recent update).
Yesterday (2 Jan) I couln't connect to the Internet after boot. I fround
that the problem is that my eth0 card does NOT come up during a fresh
boot- it does not get a (DHCP) IP address nor is it listed in response to
ifconfig (even after issueing "ifconfig eth0").
..
Only manually tweaking via HardDrake solved the problem, only till the next
boot. dmesg did not help me either.

Please advise.

Enclosed please find relevant parts of dmesg output.

TIA

-------------------dmesg (partial) output--------------
Linux version 2.6.8.1-12mdk ((E-Mail Removed)) (gcc version
3.4.1 (Mandrakelinux (Alpha 3.4.1-3mdk)) #1 Fri Oct 1 12:53:41 CEST 2004

------------snip----------------


Local APIC disabled by BIOS -- reenabling.
Found and enabled local APIC!
Initializing CPU#0
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=linux ro root=308 acpi=ht splash=silent
bootsplash: silent mode.
PID hash table entries: 4096 (order 12: 32768 bytes)
Detected 1196.183 MHz processor.
-----------snip---------------


e100: Intel(R) PRO/100 Network Driver, 3.0.18
e100: Copyright(c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation
PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 0000:02:08.0
e100: eth0: e100_probe: addr 0x40100000, irq 11, MAC addr 00:02:A5:BA:EF:CC
bootsplash 3.1.6-2004/03/31: looking for picture.... silentjpeg size 14554
bytes, found (800x600, 14506 bytes, v3).
bootsplash: status on console 0 changed to on
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8190 buckets, 65520 max) - 328 bytes per conntrack
Linux Kernel Card Services
options: [pci] [cardbus] [pm]
------------snip----------------

NET: Registered protocol family 17
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8190 buckets, 65520 max) - 328 bytes per conntrack
maestro3: version 1.23 built at 12:45:18 Oct 1 2004
------------snip----------------


eth0: no IPv6 routers present
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10Mbps, half-duplex
cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!