Activation of network connection failed in Dell Inspirion 1564

I am using Dell Inspirion 1564 with core i3 procwssor & 2 GB RAM. When I try to connect DSL connection I am always getting the error message “Activation of network connection failed.” . The output of some command is displayed below.
[root@localhost ~]# ethtool p5p1
Settings for p5p1:
Supported ports: [ TP MII ]
Supported link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Supported pause frame use: No
Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
Advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Advertised pause frame use: Symmetric Receive-only
Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Link partner advertised link modes: 10baseT/Half 10baseT/Full
100baseT/Half 100baseT/Full
Link partner advertised pause frame use: Symmetric
Link partner advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
Speed: 100Mb/s
Duplex: Full
Port: MII
PHYAD: 0
Transceiver: internal
Auto-negotiation: on
Supports Wake-on: pumbg
Wake-on: g
Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
drv probe ifdown ifup
Link detected: yes
[root@localhost ~]# [root@localhost ~]# ifconfig
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Local Loopback)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

p5p1: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet6 fe80::baac:6fff:fe5a:3f1 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether b8:ac:6f:5a:03:f1 txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 43 bytes 5499 (5.3 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 121 bytes 21972 (21.4 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
device interrupt 42 base 0xe000

virbr0: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.122.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.122.255
ether c6:30:69:d8:cd:59 txqueuelen 0 (Ethernet)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

[root@localhost ~]#

Is it a H/W problem or a problem of OS. ? I am using fedora 17 x86_64.

This might seem kinda dumb, but have you hit the function key to turn on the radio? My laptop, a Dell 1750 has this radio tower looking icon on the f2 function key -- dang thing has to be switched every so often.

Other than that, have you tried looking at your "inetd.conf" file (somewhere in /etc.

And other than those two, have you tried WICD.

Hope this helps some.