windowsxp networking.

[xddxogm3]

If you have been reading any of my other posts lately you now I have a new laptop.
The networking on this laptop is not working.
I'm running windowsxp on this laptop.
I have the following set up.

		 [Cable Modem]
			 |
	   [D-Link Router/Hub/Switch]
	   /		 |	  \
	  xp	   slackware	  98se

My xp configuration will not allow me to route through the hub. It insists that I'm using a Gateway. I'm not using a gateway for my connection. Every time I try to create a new connection using the hub configuration, it says that it can not idenitify the connection. It says to manually configure. I set up the D-Link so that I'm using DHCP and Static Ips. Does anyone know how to make this work. Every time I check my connection properties it says it may have been corrupted.