"FAILED" to "bring up" eth0

[Phil Thomson]

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> Phil Thomson wrote:
>> After no less than three attempts, I finally got Fedora Core 2 installed
>> and booting on an old 233 with 64 MB of RAM that I found in the garbage
>> (!). But now, upon boot, Fedora tries to "bring up" eth0 for a long time
>> before saying it "FAILED". Does this simply mean the ethernet adapter is
>> broken (given that I found this box in the trash, that may well be, though
>> it seems perfectly functional in all other ways)? Or is there a .conf file
>> or something I need to tweak somewhere?
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> Could you run /sbin/lspci -v and send us any stanzas mentioning
> Ethernet, and the output of running /sbin/ifup eth0 as root?

lspci gives:

00:11.0 Ethernet controller: 3com Corporation 3c905 100 Base TX 
[Boomerang]
Subsystem: Dell Computer Corporation: Unknown device 0076
Flags: bus master, medium devsel, latency 32, IRQ 11
I/O ports at ec80 [size=fc000000]
Expansion ROM at 00010000 [disabled]

ifup gives:

Determining IP information for eth0... failed (the "failed" comes after a 
very long pause)