On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 20:27 +0000, Beartooth wrote: > On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 17:48:15 -0500, Jim Cornette wrote: > > > You have to enable it to boot at startup or enable it through the > > interface. I believe either typing neat or system-config-network or > > getting to it through the system/administration/network menu would allow > > you to adjust the settings. > > OK, typing "neat" and <enter> from a root prompt gets the GUI I've been > mostly using. Clicking the activate mark, with either eth0 or eth1 > highlighted, gets me an error message saying the device seems not to be > present. > > > It should also tell you under the hardware tab what type of network card > > it thinks you have on the computer. > > On that tab, it calls eth0 an Intel EthernetExpress/100 drive -- and eth1 > a 3Com 3c501 -- and says both are configured. The IPSec tab, btw, shows a > check mark under Profile, Host2Host under Type, 192.168.x.y (the correct > number, under which I access the router from any browser on any other > machine) under Destination, and "netgear" -- the nickname I gave the > router yesterday -- under Nickname. > > > In the DNS tab should be your hostname, primary and secondary DNS and > > the search path for the DNS. > > Everything there was blank. I simply copied verbatim from what I see on a > connecting machine. > > It still wouldn't simply activate either eth, but did tell me (as it has > so often) that I might want to restart network services or the machine. > The command "services network restart" gets me only an error saying it's > not recognized. I rebooted. /sbin/ifconfig after the reboot still shows > only the loopback running, with no mention of ethX. > > > My logic is that it must have configured some type of card since you > > said that you could choose static or DHCP. > > > > If you highlight the device and choose edit, you should see a checkmark > > next to the "Activate device when computer starts" > > Yup. I do. > > > For the other choice, it should be set to "automatically obtain IP > > address settings with dhcp" > > Yup. It is. > > > For finding out the type of NIC is using from the command terninal, > > lspci should show all the info for your PCI devices. > > lspci as root still shows me only "bash: lspci: command not found" > > > To find out the driver loaded for the card, lsmod should show you which > > module driver was loaded for the card. > > again, not found. The first character in each of those *is* lower case L, > isn't it, not the number 1?? Yes, "lima-sierra-papa-charlie-india". Keep in mind that most of these commands are intended to be run as root with root's environment and path (e.g. a normal user does not have "/sbin" in his/her path). If you (as a normal user) simply did an "su" to become root then you won't have root's environment. You must use "su -" ("su-space-dash") to get root's environment and path as well as becoming root. In any case, you should be able to run the command as "/sbin/lspci". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - - VitalStream, Inc. http://www.vitalstream.com - - - - Squawk! Pieces of Seven! Pieces of Seven! Parity Error! - ----------------------------------------------------------------------