Need help installing linux on an HP laptop

[John Kohler]

Thank you, again, for all your help.
I have been successful with the GUI windows on Red Hat 6.2 for the 
Network Interface Card configuration, but the one for my current version 
is a little unfamiliar.  I'll need more help with that.

John

ME wrote:

>Now that the device is recognized, it is very likely that there is just a
>configuration issue in giving the NIC the proper networking information.
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>Me being a Debian guy, I can tell you haw to do it manually and give you
>files to edit by hand, *but* use of RedHat/SuSE GUI tools are often better
>when you use those Distros.
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>I'll leave you (John) in the very capable hands of Mark who has provided a
>very thorough description of where you will need to go next.
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>(If there are future hardware issues on this, I can come back in.)
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>I have never used "neat" but you may be able to just run it from the
>command line in your version of Linux (like in an xterm) or install the
>neat package if it is not part of a base install.
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>Good progress!
>:-)
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>-ME
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>John Kohler said:
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>>Mark Street wrote:
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>>>On Thursday 07 November 2002 21:07, John Kohler wrote:
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>>>>># ifconfig eth0
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>>>>I got the following:
>>>>eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:C0:9F:15:38:2B
>>>>       BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
>>>>       RX packets: 0 errors:0 dropped: 0 overruns:0 frame:0
>>>>       TS packets: 4 errrors:0 dropped:0  overruns:0 carrier:0
>>>>       collisions: 0 txqueuelen:100
>>>>       RX bytes: 0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:2360 (2.3 Kb)
>>>>       Interrupt:11 base address 0xf000
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>>>Integrated NIC, recognized.  Use the gui tool  'neat'
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>>Can you tell me on which pull down menu I will find the gui tool
>>"neat"?
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>>John
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>>>to configure the
>>>interface or edit /etc/sysconfig/network   to include
>>>
>>>NETWORKING=yes
>>>GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 - or whatever your GATEWAY router is.
>>>HOSTNAME= YOUR HOSTNAME
>>>
>>>then edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>>>edit these to your specs....
>>>
>>>DEVICE=eth0
>>>BOOTPROTO=static  OR DHCP if you want.
>>>IPADDR=192.168.1.X - your assigned IP if static
>>>NETMASK=255.255.255.0
>>>ONBOOT=yes    You do want it to come up on boot?
>>>BROADCAST=192.168.1.255
>>>NETWORK=192.168.1.0
>>>USERCTL=yes
>>>TYPE=Ethernet
>>>PEERDNS=no
>>>GATEWAY=192.168.1.1
>>>
>>>Make sure /etc/resolv.conf has the proper DNS entries for your DNS
>>>servers.
>>>
>>>search sonic.net
>>>nameserver 208.201.224.11
>>>nameserver 208.201.224.33
>>>
>>>or whatever entries were provided by your ISP.
>>>
>>>Bring the interface down as root with ifdown eth0
>>>then bring it back up with ifup eth0.  See if the ifconfig output
>>>changes.   You might want to take the network service down and back up
>>>with
>>>
>>>service network restart     and see if it comes back with your new
>>>settings..
>>>
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>>>>00:12:0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation
>>>>DP83815 (Macphyter)
>>>>            Ethernet Controller
>>>>
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>>>- --
>>>Mark Street, D.C.
>>>Red Hat Certified Engineer
>>>Cert# 807302251406074
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