In order for you to be able to ifconfig the connection up, you must
have
the proper ethernet modules loaded, or at least configured in
/etc/modprobe.conf. That's good. That's 50% of the battle. Now, why
can't you use system-config-network to configure the (now working)
ethernet card to active at boot time? [From the GUI, click the Fedora
-> System Tools -> Network Device Control From there, select your
ethernet device and push the "Configure..." button, (supply your root
password, if necessary), select your device in the Network Configuration
window, and push the "Edit" button in the toolbar. Check the box that
reads: "Activate device when the computer starts"]
You also might want to
check 'allow all users to enable & disable the
device' option especially if there are multiple NICs on the machine.
This is especially useful on laptops where there is both a wireless &
wired NIC, I've got mine set up to start neither on boot since having
the default eth interface unavailable on boot will cause a significant
delay on boot. I use the network device control applet to bring
up/down as required.
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Bests,
Jon
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