What options do you have in the Appletalk pane?  Is TCP/IP actually enabled (normally when you enter and then quit the pane - albeit in OS 8 - you have to enable**) and can you see…

lots of these old NIC's for what ever reasons they have issues grabbing a DHCP address. you can try to set a manual address in TCP/IP.

Thank you OlePigeon.  Yes, I do have a TCP/IP icon in control panel.  I guess I will move Appletalk back to it's origional settings.... jack

Do you have either TCP/IP or MacTCP in your control panels? The "Network" control panel is for changing which network your AppleTalk is on, not for getting on the internet.

Thanks for the help Elfen.  Yes, the ethernet cable plugged into the back of my Color Classic is plugged into my router.  I can take the same cable and plug it into my blu ray play…