BBB Rev c Ethernet not working.... Green/Yellow lights is on without even connecting it..

Hello all

my bbb wont connect via Ethernet… every time i start it gives me a gives me the etherent yellow and green light without even connecting it to Ethernet and when i do connect it to Ethernet the green light starts to blink,

when go on root i get this:

ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 54:4a:16:bc:31:aa // i try to change the IP address and the netmask but even when it shows that it has been changed it doesnt PING
inet6 addr: fe80::564a:16ff:febc:31aa/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:27 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:5528 (5.3 KiB)
Interrupt:40

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:65536 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)

usb0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 82:dc:0d:f7:04:7b
inet addr:192.168.7.2 Bcast:192.168.7.3 Mask:255.255.255.252
inet6 addr: fe80::80dc:dff:fef7:47b/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:329 errors:0 dropped:4 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:80 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:97852 (95.5 KiB) TX bytes:18770 (18.3 KiB)

is it a hardware problem? Thank you :slight_smile:

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