>A few other things which might be relevant:<br>><br>
>Have you tried to disable the firewall and restart the network:<br>
>[as root]<br>
>$ service iptables stop<br>
>$ service network stop<br>
>$ service NetworkManager restart<br>
><br>>..if that doesn't help then post the output from<br>
>[as root]<br>
>$ route -n<br>
>$ ethtool eth0<br>
>$ ifconfig eth0<br>
>$ ping 127.0.0.1<br>
>$ chkconfig --list | grep [35]:on<br>
>..which may shed some light on what's going on.<br><br>Yes, refreshing the Firewall did help.<br>Now my eth0 (and NetworkManager) start successfully.<br><br>However, my route table is empty.<br>So still no internet with my router / DHCP.<br>
<br>SUMMARY<br><br>Fresh-boot the computer, while attached to router -> internet<br><br><font style="font-family: courier new,monospace;" size="2">[root@localhost ~]# service NetworkManager status<br>NetworkManager (pid 1938) is running...<br>
<br>[root@localhost ~]# service iptables stop<br>iptables: Flushing firewall rules: [ OK ]<br>iptables: Setting chains to policy ACCEPT: filter [ OK ]<br>iptables: Unloading modules: [ OK ]<br>
<br>[root@localhost ~]# service network stop<br>Shutting down interface eth0: [ OK ]<br>Shutting down loopback interface: [ OK ]<br><br>[root@localhost ~]# service NetworkManager stop<br>
Stopping NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]<br><br>[root@localhost ~]# service NetworkManager start<br>Setting network parameters... [ OK ]<br>Starting NetworkManager daemon: [ OK ]</font><br>
<br>RESULTS<br><br>eth0 and NM came-up just fine (this time).<br><br>Now that eth0 is running, I see that my ROUTE table is empty.<br><br><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[root@localhost ~]# route -n</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Kernel IP routing table</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">[root@localhost ~]# ping -c 5 127.0.0.1</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">PING 127.0.0.1 (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes of data.</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">64 bytes from <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.063 ms</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">64 bytes from <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.055 ms</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">64 bytes from <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;"><span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">64 bytes from <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.057 ms</span><br style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">
<span style="font-family: courier new,monospace;">64 bytes from <a href="http://127.0.0.1">127.0.0.1</a>: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.056 ms</span><br><br>--- 127.0.0.1 ping statistics ---<br>5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 3999ms<br>
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.055/0.057/0.063/0.008 ms<br><br>Things seem better since I flushed my firewall rules, but<br>any advice for routing tables would be appreciated.<br><br>Thanks