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

[Khaled Dabbas]

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 :)

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