How to make ethernet plug and play?

vailixi

So for whatever reason most of the time the ethernet doesn't work. How do I configure networking services to start at startup? I just want to plug in the ethernet cord and have it work. What do I do here? Is it a config file or is it something at kernel level where the driver isn't loaded until you start the services. I appreciate the economy of memory use. All of the builds I have done are for larger computers with plenty ram. So sowhat if your system takes 1.3gb of memory when you have 8gb or better of ram. So those kernel builds can have all of the drivers loaded and ready to go. So do I have to lb the thing or is there just some config files?

nz1

I installed fedora22 mate and  ethernet just worked, as you have suggested. It got the dhcp ip address automatically and i didnt have to do anything. Ping works fine.
But yum does not work for me. I would be interested if someone else who will/has installed fedora22 mate and could tell me if yum works for them or if they get an error.

k4gbb

You didn't say which distro you are using.
I use Debian based Distros and configure a file named /etc/network/interfaces.
Here is an example of one of my network interfaces files.
                 ----------------------------------------------
# This file describes the network interfaces available on your system
# and how to activate them. For more information, see interfaces(5).
auto lo
# The loopback network interface
iface lo inet loopback

auto eth0
# The primary network interface
iface eth0 inet dhcp

            ----------------------------------------------------

nz1

The distro from loboris, downloaded from the mega site