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Dude you need to SERIOUSLY chill out, this is not an issue to get upset over. How can your ethernet card be assigned an IP address if it isnt connected to a DHCP server? You have to configure it to a certain IP address. 127.0.0.1 IS NOT an ip address for a ethernet card. If you dont have an ethernet card in a machine, you can STILL PING 127.0.0.1. It is localhost.localdomain WHICH IS the loopback interface.

[root@dogmeat dogmeat]# /sbin/ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:03:47:77:A7:4A
inet addr:10.0.0.2 Bcast:10.0.0.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:343586 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:298841 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:55893231 (53.3 Mb) TX bytes:69549423 (66.3 Mb)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:606 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:606 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:41318 (40.3 Kb) TX bytes:41318 (40.3 Kb)


Loop back interface, Inet addr:127.0.0.1, Eth0, inet addr 10.0.0.2, Now tell me, 127 is the ipaddress for the network card? hmmmm.

Ppuddick,

I think I read somewhere that if the network card is set to use plug and play and there is no BIOS settings, you can change the network card settings.

Is this so? If so, how would you do this?

jamrock,

I'm going to be totally honest with you here and say I don't know. Me changing the BIOS settings was really the last resort as I was clutching at straws when I was experiencing the same problem. So then, I may have contributed to solving OrganicX's problem but I'll be the first to admit that it was a complete fluke! Sorry I can't be much help!