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.