Lost all network connectivity after clean FC3 install

[Jay Scherrer]

On Sunday 05 December 2004 04:23 pm, fedora-list-request at redhat.com 
wrote:
> Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2004 00:09:39 +0100 (CET)
> From: Salvatore Indiogine <sindiogine at yahoo.it>
> Subject: Lost all network connectivity after clean FC3 install
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> Greetings!
>
> I had a decently working FC1 install on my PC. I have
> 2 network cards on my PC (eth0 and eth1).
>
> eth0 is connected to a Motorola SB5100 cable modem.
> The card is detected as D-Link RTL81.  The driver
> loaded is: 8139too
>
> eth0 is configured as DHCP with automatic obtain DNS
> info from provider.
>
> eth1 is connected to another FC1 PC with a crossover
> cable.  It is configured as 10.0.0.1 with mask
> 255.0.0.0 and gateway 10.0.0.1
>
> When FC1 was installed it all worked perfectly:
> internet and LAN, iptables masquerading and forwading.
>
> After the clean FC3 install nothing works anymore:
>
> eth0 failes to come up.
>
> eth1 comes up but any ping or ssh gives a network
> unreacheable response.
>
> I do not have SELinux installed and also inactivated
> the firewall, but to no avail.
>
> I really like Fedora and would like to keep using it.
> However, a home LAN and internet connectivity are
> essential for my whole family and I am afraid to I
> have to switch to Ubuntu or SUSE if I can not get the
> networking to work.
>
> Hopefully I have only overlooked something and it is
> fixable.
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Enrico
What does your: /etc/sysconfig/network say?
To turn on Networking make sure it  says NETWORKING = yes.
Also check your: /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth*  
where ifcfg-eth* stands for either eth0 or eth1.
These files will hold your profiles for those devices.

Jay Scherrer