[plug] Mandrake 10.1 boot up [failure]

[John and Susan Foster]

I have just installed Mandrake 10.1

During boot up the line
"bringing up ethy0 	[failed]"
appears.

Not quite true - sometimes this item is said to be "[OK]". This difference for 
no apparent reason.

This failure? does not seem to impact on my system.

Does anybody know what such a failure might mean and how to fix it?

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Kind Regards

John Foster