[plug] Mandrake 10.1 boot up [failure]

[Innis Cunningham]

Hello John

>From: John and Susan Foster writes
>
>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?

I am probably not the best person to ask as my knowledge of linux could 
probably
be put on the back of a postage stamp with a two inch margin but here goes.
I think the message is eth0 which is testing your ethanet system(your 
network).
So the fact that it works sometimes could mean
A your ethanet card is faulty or not installed properly
B your cables for the network are not installed properly or faulty.
C your modem or router is faulty.
After this I dont know.
>
>--
>Kind Regards
>
>John Foster

Cheers
Innis