[Novalug] Connecting CentOS 5.3 on a netbook

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 26 Apr 2009, David A. Cafaro wrote:

> 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.

 	Alas! All I get is :


[btth at EeePC701Cent ~]$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo        Link encap:Local Loopback
           inet addr:127.0.0.1  Mask:255.0.0.0
           inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
           UP LOOPBACK RUNNING  MTU:16436  Metric:1
           RX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
           TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
           RX bytes:560 (560.0 b)  TX bytes:560 (560.0 b)

[btth at EeePC701Cent ~]$

> 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.

 	Fwiw, all the same hardware, running DreamLinux 3.5 a few 
minutes ago, saw both eth0 and the usual three wireless networks 
(mine and, presumably, two of the neighbors').

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