General Questions

Hi guys...
I know the instalation is very straight forward, but Im having trouble with my LAN side of m0n0wall.
Im using v1.23, and booting from a cdrom. No problems booting, my 2 ethernet cards are detected as dc0 and rl0. I assign dc0 as my LAN and rl0 as my WAN(and I have done it the other way). But the problem is that I cannot ping the LAN interface; therefore, I cannot go ahead and enter the GUI! I have tried diferent ethernet cards and it simply won't give out IPs using DHCP or I just can't ping 192.168.1.1 or wichever IP I assign to the LAN interface. Of course I am on the same subnet when I try to access the GUI, or if I use DHCP it won't give me an address. It is like the LAN int. is always death, even though it is recognized (I do get a link light). In m0n0wall I can ping myself at 127.0.0.1, but not something else.
It's driving me crazy...suggestions? 
Thanks in advance 

try to unplug the WAN interface and reboot monowall without link in WAN interface and try to access the GUI .if its workink read this topic http://forum.m0n0.ch/index.php/topic,53.0.html

yeah I did that because after a while I thought why would I bother with the WAN  if I can't even ping my LAN interface or get an IP from it through dhcp, but still not working 

The big difference fron you and the other users its that you boot from cd ,and probable save configuration to floppy.i suggest you to use an hard drive , or an USB stick.