[Nottingham] Laptop arrived - now for networking.....

[David Aldred]

Right, well, thanks to Martin, I now have Mandrake 10.0.1 installed 
instead of Suse.  My problems aren't over, though!

The network card now isn't working properly at all!  During the 
installation, the card was correctly recognised and configured - I used 
the configuration section during installation to apply a machine name 
and IP address, and it seemed quite happy.

On normal boot, though, I get a line (going past very fast!):

Bringing up interface ETH0                      [FAILED]

This is the only [FAILED] in the boot sequence.  Once Linux has fully 
started, the network card simply isn't listed - 'configure network' 
doesn't offer ETH0 to be configured.  It's just not there!

How can I find out more, or sort this out?

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