eth0: no link

[chrisp88]

I've just installed FC4 on an old-ish samsung laptop with this onboard ethernet controller:

Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 08)

Initially I had the laptop working with a wireless PCMCIA card fine, but now I need it to use the ethernet controller (which I'd expected to be far easier than messing with ndiswrapper & WPA for wireless).

The light on my hub doesn't show a connection and mii-tool reports "eth0: no link" but every 2 seconds the light flashes - is this a clue to what's going on?

I've tried 3 different cables and other ways of connecting it to my home network but no luck. Pretty sure it's something to do with the laptop.

/sbin/ifconfig:

eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:F0:67:31:AF
          inet addr:10.0.0.6  Bcast:10.255.255.255  Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:f0ff:fe67:31af/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:4 errors:4 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:4
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:4738 (4.6 KiB)  TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)

/sbin/route:

Kernel IP routing table
Destination     Gateway         Genmask         Flags Metric Ref    Use Iface
169.254.0.0     *               255.255.0.0     U     0      0        0 eth0
10.0.0.0        *               255.0.0.0       U     0      0        0 eth0
default         10.0.0.138      0.0.0.0         UG    0      0        0 eth0

Please help me get on to my network

Thanks for any help

UPDATE:

from dmesg i get many occurrences of this:

e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link up, 10MBps, half-duplex
e100: eth0: e100_watchdog: link down

i presume this explains the hub light flashing? (yes it is an old 10Mbps hub)