Time to sing it:
"Happy Happy Joy Joy Joy!!!"

The learning curve is killing me. But some progress made!

I thought macros were automatically run. Nope. Did some research. Tried:
P/macros/setnetwork.
Nope, no go.

Did even more research
M98 p/macros/setnetwork

M587 showed belkin.c6f but no IP address or netmask or anything, all zeros.
Rebooted, ran M587. Connected with an IP address!!!!

Thank you all of you who helped me figure this out.