newbie Telewest Broadband

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Henry Widd um 19:24:

> Hi, I am new to the whole Linux thing...bear with me. I have just got broadband installed
> - Telewest Blueyonder. I found some advice on the internet on how to set up RedHat for
> this - which basically said I could use <netconfig> to enter everything. This would be fine
> except that <netconfig> is not a command my computer knows. (When I tried to install
> the rpm, my machine tells mem that it IS installed already?! How can I use it?)

netconfig is in /usr/sbin - so you certainly became root using "su" and
not "su -". So you have no environment set for root because you have a
root shell but not root login shell. See "man su" for more info.

redhat-config-network<TAB> should be all you need to set up the network
proper. The configuration will be written to
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX.
 
> Anyway, the GUI tool on Fedora does not let me enter the MAC/Physical adress for my
> PC which is something that is required for it all to work. 

The MAC of the NIC will be autodetected. Do you really need to set that
address?
 
> If you have any advice, or know of good tutorial/docs to help me pls let me know,

www.redhat.com/docs/ - there is documentation, although it is about
Redhat 9 it mostly fits for Fedora Core 1 too. 

> thanks
>  
> H

Alexander


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