On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:15:23 +0900, Edward Dekkers wrote: > Beartooth wrote: >> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:13:10 +0900, Edward Dekkers wrote: >> >>> The most obvious question would be what kind of network card is it and >>> are the modules loading for it? [...] >> OK, fine -- how do I find out? The hardware browser I see in FC6, or what >> looks to me to be one, is very different from what used to be called that >> in FC 1 - 5; but I do have a way to open something that I think will tell >> me -- once I know where and how to look. So how do I know a network card >> when I see one? I bet it isn't called that. >> >> And what command a/o log will tell me whether modules (modules??) are >> loading? I'll be glad to do the work and report, once I know how. >> > > Jim's already answered this one but in short: > > lspci for listing PCI devices in your system and > lsmod for listing loaded modules. I get the same result on the non-connecting machine as on this one : [root@localhost btth]# lspci bash: lspci: command not found [root@localhost btth]# lsmod bash: lsmod: command not found [root@localhost btth]# > These need to be run from a CLI. Actually, I got into linux in the first place (with RH 7.2) in order to be able to run Pine, which I had had at work over a telnet link to an AIX machine in the IT division -- and what I liked and still do about Pine is that it is command-line driven; but it's still the one app that my fingers know, without requiring conscious direction. What's left of my memory seems to have woefully buttery linux fingers; there are a few things I now do with the CLI for preference -- namely of course the ones I do most often. But when in doubt, I always try the GUI first, because my visual memory works better -- and me a linguist <sigh...> > P.S. I've been using Linux since Redhat 5.2 and I STILL can not do > everything I want graphically. I'm afraid for fixing problems like this > the CLI is still your best bet. Last time I had any of the sort, with FC2 or 3 iirc, I did in fact work entirely by editing .conf files -- with a helpful soul walking me through -- but I disremember which .conf files they were ...<whimper, sniff ...> SO : it's possible that someone put a second card in there for me at some time -- but I don't recall it. Therefore, given that lspci and lsmod aren't getting anything, how do I check?? -- Beartooth Staffwright, PhD, Neo-Redneck Linux Convert Remember I know precious little of what I am talking about.