Well, that seems to have worked. I'll bet "ifconfig -a" shows eth0 now. Probably not an address, but an entry for it.
Try "/etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart" and see if it comes up.
Your /etc/sysconfig/network file should have:
NETWORKING=yes HOSTNAME=yourhost.yourdomain.com GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
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