Re: Ethernet interface not working in 8.0

[Burnie West <bgwest mindspring com>]

This appears to be a more common problem than I thought.  My
trouble, or so I thought, was due to the fact that I was going
through a NetGear MR314 router which Redhat does not have in
their list of supported hardware.  However, today I hooked up
directly to my PacBell DSL machine (bypassing the router),
deleted and re-added the eth0 connection using internet-druid,
and still could not connect.  I didn't spend much time on this,
however, because that shut off all the other users on my LAN.

I have reviewed in some detail (considering my lack of LINUX
experience) all the relevant files I could find searching for
evidence of discrepancy, and found none.  One thing did puzzle
me, though.  In the file /etc/dhcpc/dhcpcd-eth0.info the field
CLASSID="Linux 2.4.18-14 i686" when I was on Linux 7.3, and
now on 8.0 it is CLASSID="Linux 2.4.18-3 i686".  This would
seem to be a kernel revision level; my latest up2date reference
is kernel-2.4.18-17.x.i686.rpm -- apparently from a 7.3 upgrade.
Does this make sense?  Or do I have some kernel clashing?

The output of ifconfig also appears to me to be consistent, as
well as the NetGear MR314 DHCP table.

Here are the files I reviewed -- perhaps someone out there might
be able to suggest others to think about.

/etc/dhcpc/dhcpc-eth0.info
/etc/dhcpc/dhcpc-eth0.cache (three strings)
/etc/hosts
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

During the boot, occasionally the eth0 launch exhibits FAILED and
(rarely) it asserts "infinite lease time expired", but usually it
simply says "OK".