"FAILED" to "bring up" eth0

[Phil Thomson]

Hi all,

After no less than three attempts, I finally got Fedora Core 2 installed 
and booting on an old 233 with 64 MB of RAM that I found in the garbage 
(!). But now, upon boot, Fedora tries to "bring up" eth0 for a long time 
before saying it "FAILED". Does this simply mean the ethernet adapter is 
broken (given that I found this box in the trash, that may well be, though 
it seems perfectly functional in all other ways)? Or is there a .conf file 
or something I need to tweak somewhere?

I'm a bit of a newbie to Linux, but I've used it twice before, and I'm 
familiar with *nix-type systems through Mac OS X/Fink. Please feel free to 
respond offlist if you think this question is out of place on this list.

TIA.

Phil


"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
Popular Mechanics, 1949


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