I use Fredora core 2 and LAN. But eth0 can not be activated by all means.
When I use ' ifconfig eth0 up ' nothing happens.
The ifconfig command gives me

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:07:E9:C7:71:A4
inet6 addr: fe80::207:e9ff:fec7:71a4/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:650 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:44 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:15 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:73915 (72.1 Kb) TX bytes:4374 (4.2 Kb)


I think there is one line missing
inet addr:35.9.XX.XX Bcast:35.9.XX.XXX5 Mask:255.255.255.0
I saw people who has internet bring up this line with ifconfig command.

Anyone has idea what problem it is? A hardware or software one?

Thanks

if you are using dhcp
ifdown eth0
and
ifup eth0
are the commands
if you are using static addressing
ifconfig eth0 inet (*ip address)
*your ip address
and you dont have to enter the subnet mask

get rid of the ipv6 stuff (unless of course you use it), and put ipv4 ip address gateway bcast mask etc...

I am not sure what distro you are using but in gentoo this is done in the /etc/conf.d/net file...

you can also set it up from command, as mentioned above

by doing

ifconfig eth0 ${IP_ADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK} up

the you can set gateway with

route add default gw ${GATEWAY}


Hope this helps