i duel boot windoxs xp and redhat 8. I pick up the redhat destro so i could learn how to program on linux. I've been tring for the last week to get redhat to connect to comcast with no luck. I find it necessary to connect to the inter net so i and download and install drivers etc. Luckly redhat reconized by ethernet adapter (net gear fa11). Howevery i can not set up a internet connection. Inside of xp i ran winipcfg(a download program that looks like the ones in 98, 95) i wrote down the info but even when i use my ip hostname Comcast's dns severs it dosen't work. Does anyone have any good ideas to fix this?

I'm not sure of RH8, but FC2 keeps all it's network devices (connections) in two locations:
/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts

You might want to set it up manually, so try this:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices
# ls

See if a file called ifcfg-eth0 is listed. Just remember if it wasn't:
# vim ifcfg-eth0

I use Comcast also, so yours should probably look like mine also. See if all your settings look like this:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
USERCTL=yes
PEERDNS=yes
TYPE=Ethernet
MODE=managed

Press escape and then :wq to save and quit out of vim.

if you didn't have a ifcfg-eth0 file in the directory, you need to do this:
# cd /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
# ln /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth0

I use a router and a D-Link DWL-G520, so if you're connecting directly to your cable modem, you may need to set up some stuff, which I think you can do through the GUI.

thanks for the help i'll try to configure linux today. Let's see what happens (keep your fingers crossed). But, thanks for the help

thank you oep. it turns out that the gui program in gnome didn't configure right.
The info in your config file. It works too. I am happy to say that a posted this reply
inside of linux.

--------------------------Thank you