Comment 6 for bug 92085

I am having this problem was well. My eth0 is non-functional until I do an ifdown and ifup on the eth0 interface. My eth1 device (gigabit nic) works as expected. I see reference to a solution which I cannot seem to find. If it involves uninstalling my desktop I am not interested. Is there away to disable the network manager?

eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:17:31:C0:E2:19
          inet addr:192.168.1.101 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::217:31ff:fec0:e219/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1913 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:1692 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2040749 (1.9 MiB) TX bytes:240946 (235.2 KiB)
          Interrupt:20 Base address:0xe000

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:40:F4:ED:76:5E
          inet addr:192.168.11.1 Bcast:192.168.11.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::240:f4ff:feed:765e/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:40 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:109 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7648 (7.4 KiB) TX bytes:13095 (12.7 KiB)
          Interrupt:16 Base address:0xa000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:68 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:5132 (5.0 KiB) TX bytes:5132 (5.0 KiB)