I just installed Fedora Core 3; I have an ASUS A7N8X mobo; with a NVidia ethernet controller; the connection works fine in Windows XP. While booting into Fedora it fails on obtaining network config for eth0. I also have a gigabit ethernet controller but it's not used right now.

Fedora appears to see both controllers and the correct names are displayed. However are listed as inactive. When I check an ifconfig; the device is listed but there is no IP address listed.

Any thoughts on how to activate my network connection with Fedora?

Thanks.

well some outputs maybe helpful here, like
`ifconfig eth0 `
`cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0`
`lsmod`
`route -n`
`iptables -L`

that will be a nice start

My ethernet device is actually listed on eth1.. Here's the output of previous requested commands.. Thanks.

`ifconfig eth1 `
eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:118:02:A0:47
inet6 addr: fe80::211:d8ff:fe02:a047/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Memory:ed080000-0

`cat /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1`
DEVICE=eth1
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=no
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
IPV6INIT=no
HWADDR=00:11:d8:02:a0:47

`lsmod`
Module Size Used by
nls_utf8 1985 1
radeon 120516 2
parport_pc 24705 1
lp 11565 0
parport 41737 2 parport_pc,lp
autofs4 24005 0
i2c_dev 10433 0
i2c_core 22081 1 i2c_dev
sunrpc 160421 1
ipt_REJECT 6465 1
ipt_state 1857 1
ip_conntrack 40693 1 ipt_state
iptable_filter 2753 1
ip_tables 16193 3 ipt_REJECT,ipt_state,iptable_filter
button 6481 0
battery 8517 0
ac 4805 0
md5 4033 1
ipv6 232577 8
ohci1394 35033 0
ieee1394 302869 1 ohci1394
ohci_hcd 22225 0
ehci_hcd 31557 0
snd_intel8x0 34829 2
snd_ac97_codec 64401 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_pcm_oss 47609 0
snd_mixer_oss 17217 2 snd_pcm_oss
snd_pcm 97993 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm_oss
snd_timer 29765 1 snd_pcm
snd_page_alloc 9673 2 snd_intel8x0,snd_pcm
gameport 4801 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_mpu401_uart 8769 1 snd_intel8x0
snd_rawmidi 26725 1 snd_mpu401_uart
snd_seq_device 8137 1 snd_rawmidi
snd 54053 11 snd_intel8x0,snd_ac97_codec,snd_pcm_oss,snd_mixer_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mpu401_uart,snd_rawmidi, snd_seq_device
soundcore 9889 2 snd
sk98lin 146217 1
forcedeth 19009 0
floppy 58609 0
dm_snapshot 17029 0
dm_zero 2369 0
dm_mirror 23341 2
ext3 116809 2
jbd 74969 1 ext3
dm_mod 54741 6 dm_snapshot,dm_zero,dm_mirror
sata_sil 8005 0
libata 40005 1 sata_sil
sd_mod 16961 0
scsi_mod 118417 2 libata,sd_mod

`route -n`
Kernel IP routing table
Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface
169.254.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo

`iptables -L`
Chain INPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain FORWARD (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination
RH-Firewall-1-INPUT all -- anywhere anywhere

Chain OUTPUT (policy ACCEPT)
target prot opt source destination

Chain RH-Firewall-1-INPUT (2 references)
target prot opt source destination
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT icmp -- anywhere anywhere icmp any
ACCEPT ipv6-crypt-- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT ipv6-auth-- anywhere anywhere
ACCEPT udp -- anywhere 224.0.0.251 udp dpt:5353
ACCEPT udp -- anywhere anywhere udp dpt:ipp
ACCEPT all -- anywhere anywhere state RELATED,ESTABLISHED
REJECT all -- anywhere anywhere reject-with icmp-host-prohibited

you can try clearing the iptables firewall
`iptables -F`

and then try giving it an ip manually
I am not sure what your net address is but here is an example

`ifconfig eth1 192.168.1.15 255.255.255.0 up`

add your gateway after that

`route add default gw 192.168.1.1`

and then try to ping a pingable address like yahoo (66.94.230.48)

have you tried dhcp?

dhclient eth1

that will do it if not.