mesa 7i96 connection refused

i have tried it with both the 192.168.1.121 and the 10.10.10.10. I am the only person who has ever used this so i dont know how it could have been changed. it worked fine on my previous computer. i turned off ivp 6 i think but the freaking ip address still changes, after running ifup -a ifdown-a it sows the correct number but if i do anything at all even just ping any ip or try to open my machine it reverts to this

2: enp3s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether f0:4d:a2:fe:86:3e brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

What happens if you setup a static IP address of 10.10.10.100 in wicd?
I still get the impression the wicd is messing with things

Replacing wicd with netmanager might also help (since netmanager
respects interfaces file settings)

When i do that it shows in the ip a command as 10.10.10.100/8 but when i try to open my machine it says network unreachable

If you get "network unreachable" and" ip a" shows that the static
address is right and the link is "UP" this means is still a network configuration error on the host. Not sure what.

At this point I would probably remove wicd and install netmanager

So i tried removing wcid and using netmanager and similar results. I managed to find the flash drive with the EXACT same linux debian wheezy iso that worked on my previous computer, i put it on the new pc, i used a backup of my machine configuration that is EXACTLY the same that worked on my previous computer and i get and error that resource is not available. with this new installation i no longer have the ip address issues but i cannot ping the card in the 192.168.1.121 setting or the 10.10.10.10 it says no response . is it possible that the ethernet on my mesa 7i96 is not working if its that i will gladly buy another card and be done with all this.

Have you checked your cable ?