When I installed beta2 from CD in GUI, eth0 is not enabled although I selected DHCP and yes to onboot. But ONBOOT is still `no'. I turned off the firewall. It may have something to do with it.
This defect considered MUST-FIX for Fairfax gold-release.
I also noticed this happening on beta2. However, it does NOT seem to happen if you do a text install. NOTE: I do not use dhcp and deselect this. I then fill in the needed info.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 47711 ***