Ok let's take it from the top. Boot your machine into X, forget the dhcp thing for now.
In a term window, su to root and run dhcp. Then, highlight the text and go to your email window. Click the middle mouse button when you have the cursor where you want the text -- bammo cut and paste X style. No middle mouse? Try clicking both buttons at once. Still no go? When configuring X, it asks if you want to "emulate three button mouse", tell it yes. No X? Install gpm it does the same thing for consoles. You can pass args to modules in one of two ways: insmod 3c509 io=0x300 irq=10 or cd /etc/modutils edit the aliases file alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 3c509 options eth0 io=0x300 options eth1 io=0x310 or something close. When done, run update-modules as root. It should not matter whether the device is up or not.
