I recently installed Fedora 17, 64 bit, on an HP h8-1320t. The machine has an on-board ethernet port (RJ-45). According to the machine's spec sheet, that is device is an "Atheros AR8161L".
Fedora does not see that interface device at all. Dmesg and /var/log/messages contain no mention of "Atheros AR8161L" or any useful substring thereof. There are no *eth0* files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts.
I know that the port hardware works because I was able to make network connections from the machine using MS Windows.
Thanks for any suggestions.
Stowe Davison
http://nic-nac-project.de/~davison