"FAILED" to "bring up" eth0

[James Wilkinson]

Phil Thomson wrote:
> 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?

Could you run /sbin/lspci -v and send us any stanzas mentioning
Ethernet, and the output of running /sbin/ifup eth0 as root?

Thanks,

James.

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