Unable to activate ehternet card

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 19 Aug 2004, Shefali Joshi wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just did a fresh install of Fedora Core 2. It detects my ethernet 
> card(SMC) but won't activate it for some reason. It said Determining 
> IP Adress Failed.

sounds like you configured it to get its address via DHCP.  do you 
have an active DHCP server on your network configured to give it an 
address?

rday