I've just done an install of fedora core 2 on my dell inspiron 8200 laptop. all seemed to go well and i had no obvious problems.

Unfortunately, i am unable to get my ethernet connection up and running.

I am on a University network which runds a base 10. my ethernet card has been detected correctly and has a stus of OK.

i have set up the connection without a firewall and to get it's detail from dhcp, however when i try to activate it, i just get

Failed: no link present. check cable.

There is nothing wrong with the hardware as if i reboot back into windows it connects without any problems.

Any help one setting or things i could try would be greatly appreciated.

managed to resolve this issue myself....

the problem stems from the university network we have (which is being replaced next month).

it has 10/100 base nics, as do i, however the intermediate network only supports 10base.... so the autonegotiation results in both NICs settling on 100 base and then my card thinks it's unplugged.

I resolved this by logging in as root and using the following code in terminal:

mii-tool -F 10BaseT-FD Eth0
ifup Eth0

the link then runs fine.

Unfortunately, i am unsure as to how i can get this fix mae more permenant - i have to run the code each time i reboot...

Any help on this would be appreciated.

Cheers