On Sun, 31 Oct 2010, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
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connect, but F14 is dead. The "Edit Connections" dialogue is completely
normal, IPv4, DHCP for everything etc.
The LAN interface is an onboard Intel e1000. The kernel module is
loaded. Running "ifup eth0" (after "ifdown") times out after 90
seconds.
It sounds as if the system isn't getting a DHCP reply for some reason. If
I was having the problem I would use ifconfig -a to find out what state
the network was in, and would try service iptables stop service ip6tables
stop and setenforce 0 before trying again (disable IPv4 and IPv6 firewalls
and disable selinux which might each be interfering with the DHCP
process).
Michael Young