Cannot activate Eth0 in FC2

[XYNaPSE]

Hello,

Im a serious Linux newb. Iv tried Redhat 7 and 9 a while ago and now I installed FC2 64 bit version. The problem I am having is after the installation I open up mozilla to see if I have iNet. I type in google address and cant find the server. So I try to configure the networking. I deleted the old network device in the netwrok configurations window because it wouldnt activate or do anything and re-detected it. I try to activate it and get this error.

Cannot activate Network device eth0
does not seem to be present
delaying initialization.

I go to the hardware tab and it says

Device eth0
IRQ unknown

During the installation I said yes to the firewall if that means anything. I tried looking for a program to configure the firewall but couldnt find anything. I have an OnBoard Lan. also sound doesnt work. Iv searched the forum and cant find anything.

Heres my hardware specs


AMD64 3000+
1 gig of ram

EPOx 8kda3j mobo
Onbboard 10/100 Ethernet
Onboard Sound

ATI Radeon 9800 pro
SATA 200gig Maxtor Diamond plus
I also have a d-link router with cable access

After trying a few things, from people helping me on other forums, I still cant get it to work. When I type /sbin/ifconfig i get

Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: :: 1/128 Scope:Host
UP Loopback RUNNING MTU: 16436 Metric:1
RX packets: 1475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets: 1475 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

Collisions: 0 txqueuelen: 0
RX bytes: 1405076 (1.3mb)
TX bytes: 1405076 (1.3mb)

I did a /sbin/lspci and got 8 unknowns


00:00.0 HostBridge:nVidia Corporations: Unknown Device 00e1 (rev a1)
00:00.1 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporations: Uknown device 00e0 (Rev a2)
00:01.1 SMBUS: nVidia Corporation: Unknown Device 00e4 (trc a1)
00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Uknown device 00e7 (rev a1)
00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation: Uknown device 00e8 (rav a2)
00:05.0 Bridge nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 00df (rev a2)
00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation: Unkown device 00e3 (rev a2)
00.0b.0 PCI Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unkown Device 00e3 (rev a2)
Thanks in advance

If you want to check out all the other stuff I did you can go to the post on linuxquestions.org HERE (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=247714&perpage=15&pagenumber=2) Hope the link works.

I am so glad I found this forum. Hopefully Ill get it fixed soon. Thanks

[imdeemvp]

you may need to install some nvidia driver for your eth0 device and this thread is about that, i hope it helps: http://www.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=20431

[XYNaPSE]

Thanks a lot! The eth0 works now. ALthough sound does not work and I still have all those unknowns when I do the lspci command. I probably need to read through the documentation that came with the nForce3 driver more thoroughly. Thanks again.

[imdeemvp]

no problem ......glad to help...im not always on the money :D