Apologies for double-post, this site (http://forums.mininoteuser.com/linux/ethernet-oddness-t762.html) also notes the issue. Issue can be resolved by rebooting with ethernet plugged in. For my distribution/system the eth0 interface did not, initially, appear at all.
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