I installed Red Hat 8.0 and things were working fine, then suddenly I was unable to browse the internet or check email. Tried pinging, got: could not find host I am using DSL and have no idea how to fix this error in Red Hat. Another thing.. when booting it says: bringing up eth0 - failed but it has always said this, I suspect because I use a boot disk instead of Grub or Lilo and originally I was still able to browse the internet normally. (but if you know how to fix this too, great!)

Do you have more than one Network Interface Card (NIC) in the system? eth0 is the first NIC card, so unless you have more than one, there is no way you were browsing when eth0 failed. You need to figure out way the NIC card is not initializing.

I only have one NIC card on the computer. For some reason it has ALWAYS said that eth0 failed when the computer boots up. And I WAS able to browse the internet when it suddenly just stopped being able to browse. When I open the browser (Mozilla) I get "could not open www.google.com" (google is my home page) and when I try to ping, get "could not find host". I don't think the eth0 failed error has anything to do with the hosts error...

I had a similair problem with a 3com 509b NIC. It would work one minute then arbitrarily quit. What it turned out to be was the PnP feature of the card. I disabled this and it worked flawlessly ever since. Until you get the NIC fired up, you will not be able to make any kind of network connecton.