Ibm PIII 750Mhz laptop
Dual boot XP and FEDORA.
Problem with networking on FEDORA.
Network card works fine on XP. Previously used Suse. Was no problem.

Problem:
I can ping and dig from FEDORA only first 30 seconds after it loads graphic
interface.
I succseded to e-mail file to another systerm from it.
netstat -in shows device not found !???
After reboot I left it pinging and it stops in 30 sec.
Looks like there is little "something" that disables network card.
What to check. Thanks.

ot@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:06:29:25:10:92
inet addr:10.0.0.31 Bcast:10.0.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:146 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:100 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:19536 (19.0 Kb) TX bytes:4240 (4.1 Kb)
Interrupt:11 Base address:0x4800

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:2074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:2074 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1619485 (1.5 Mb) TX bytes:1619485 (1.5 Mb)

[root@localhost root]# netstat -in
Kernel Interface table
Iface MTU Met RX-OK RX-ERR RX-DRP RX-OVR TX-OK TX-ERR TX-DRP TX-OVR Flg
n: error fetching interface information: Device not found
[root@localhost root]#

Thanks. Michael.