[Novalug] Connecting CentOS 5.3 on a netbook

[David A. Cafaro]

Well the big thing we need to know is if you see things like:

lo

eth0

eth1

wlan0

wifi0

Tell us the names you see.

Also run this command:

/sbin/ifconfig

And let's see what the differences are in what is listed.

Basically we're just trying to see what interfaces your system thinks  
you have.  Hopefully you have an eth0 listed (likely your wired  
connection), and possibly a wlan0 or wifi0 listed (your wireless  
connection).  lo will be the one with 127.0.0.1 in it that's your  
localhost interface and you should always have that one.

Cheers,
David




David A. Cafaro <dac at cafaro.net>
Cafaro's Ramblings:  www.cafaro.net



On Apr 26, 2009, at 6:52 PM, Beartooth wrote:

> On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, David A. Cafaro wrote:
>
>> If in a command prompt you run:
>>
>> /sbin/ifconfig -a
>>
>> What do you get back?  I'm wondering if the driver for the EeePC  
>> network cards are installed by default in CentOS. CentOS 5.3 runs  
>> an older 2.6.18 based kernel, though there are a lot of patches for  
>> newer drivers.
>
> 	You know I can't c&p the whole thing. Here's my first guess: the  
> only familiar address I see is 127.0.0.1
>
> -- 
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