Jonathan Alexander Daniel wrote: > Determining IP information for eth1...failed; no link present. Check cable? I've had that problem before when using the DHCP client. My 3C905B card reported erroneously that the link was down. The work around to this problem is to edit the following files. If only one exist, make to change to that file only: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[n] /etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg-eth[n] In both cases, [n] is the number of the Ethernet adapter (i.e. eth0) Add the following text at the top of each each files: check_link_down () { return 1; } Save and bring the interface back up (ifup eth[n]). This did the trick for me; hope it does the same for you. Ben Guevremont