FC5 networking question, emachines t3418

[Peter Horst]

I am unable to get a new eMachine t3418 running FC-5 onto a home network 
with a Belkin Pre-N wireless router.  I am connecting it via one of the 
Belkin's 4 CAT5 ports, not via the wireless.  The Belkin provides NAT 
and DHCP at 192.168.2.1.  I now have a XP Pro laptop connected via 
wireless and a second FC-5 machine, an old PII-450.  The eMachine in 
question is not running X Windows.

I had asked earlier on this list and the group kindly advised me to try 
a few things for diagnostic purposes, so here's some (somewhat 
abbreviated) output.  I should mention that I talked to Belkin and they 
suggested assigning the eMachine an IP address, so I edited 
/etc/sysconfig/network, which didn't make the slightest difference.  
Either way, the machine gives me: "Determining IP information for 
eth0...failed."

Anything jump out here?

Thanks for any assistance...

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# /sbin/ethtool eth0
Settings for eth0:
    Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
    Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
    Auto-negotiation: on
    Link detected: yes

# dmesg | tail
NET: Registered protocol family 10
lo: Disabled Privacy Extensions
IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
eth0: no IPv6 routers present

# /sbin/ifconfig eth0
RX packets: 28 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 frame: 0
TX packets: 0 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0 carrier: 0
RX bytes:3496 (3.4 KiB) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt: 17 Base address: 0xc000

# cat resolv.conf

# cat /etc/hosts
127.0.0.1   obtunded localhost.localdomain localhost
192.168.2.123 obtunded

# /bin/netstat -rn
169.254.0.0      0.0.0.0      255.255.0.0      U      0      0      0    
   lo

# cat /etc/sysconfig/network
NETWORKING=yes
ONBOOT=yes
HOSTNAME=obtunded
IPADDR=192.168.2.123
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
GATEWAY=192.168.2.1
GATEWAYDEV=eth0
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