On Thu, 2006-04-06 at 11:43 -0400, Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote: > Thanks, > > I don't understand why but when I used the command below, I was logged > in as one of the users of the machine and the command failed. Then I > logged in as root and reissued the command. It worked fine. I guess > you have to be logged in as root in order for the eth0 to work. But I > have not tried the same thing using one of the user accounts created > on the system. > > Can someone please explain this? > > Thanks, > > C > > -----Original Message----- > From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Guillermo Garron > Sent: Wednesday, April 05, 2006 4:59 PM > To: For users of Fedora Core releases > Subject: Re: eth0 not working > > Try > > /etc/init.d/network restart > > and what is the output on the screen. > > regards, > > > Washington, CJ (OCTO) wrote: > > > > Hello all, > > > > I just started using Fedora Core 5 and installed it on a Compaq > > Deskpro desktop. The install went fine but for some reason, I'm > not > > able to ping outside of my own IP address. I think that there is > an > > issue with the eth0 because when I went to shutdown the Kernel, > > everything shutdown except the eth0. It hung for hours. Is there > > anything special I need to do to get my Ethernet interface on the > > Desktop to work with Fedora Core 5? Before this, I was able to use > the > > port when Windows XP was installed on the machine. Also, when I took > a > > look at the hardware using the Linux GUI, it stated that the eth0 > was > > enabled and working. Can you please assist? > > > > CJ Washington > > > > MPLS Engineer > > > > OCTO (DCNet) > > > > CCIE# 4683 ---- Please don't post in html Please don't top post - put your replies on the bottom /etc/init.d/network restart is a command that requires root privileges. Just about any command that operates on underlying hardware/system requires root privileges. Users can do user activities. A user should be able to ping anywhere permitted by routing of the network. You might want to log in as a user and try to ping again. In fact, you should only log in as a regular user. If you need to obtain root privileges in a shell, you would open a terminal window and type 'su -' (omitting the quotes) and supply the root password and then you would have root privileges. I don't know why it would have hung while shutting down. Craig
