Hi,
first of all my problem is solved, I just would like to know if you have/had similiar problems and may be someone searching the forum finds it helpful.
I wasn't able to get the network card up and running, no error message it just didn't run. The problem was in /etc/sysconfig/network is a file ifcfg-eth-id-, but for some reason - no idea why - there was the wrong MAC address (differed from output of ifconfig). I renamed the file to ifcfg-eth0 and now it works.
Does anyone know the background of this problem?
Anyway as I sad, posting is more for other, not that important to me anymore.
Jochen