On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 15:09, Phil Thomson wrote: > Hi all, > > 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? Did you configure the ethernet adapter? It may just be trying to get a DHCP address, and cannot find a server. Configure the network card for your network, and then try to activate it. If you don't know how to configure it or activate it, just let us know. Forrest
