Need help installing linux on an HP laptop

[John Kohler]

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"?

John

>to configure the 
>interface or edit /etc/sysconfig/network   to include
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>NETWORKING=yes
>GATEWAY=192.168.1.1 - or whatever your GATEWAY router is.
>HOSTNAME= YOUR HOSTNAME
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>then edit /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
>edit these to your specs....
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>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
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>Make sure /etc/resolv.conf has the proper DNS entries for your DNS servers.
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>search sonic.net
>nameserver 208.201.224.11
>nameserver 208.201.224.33
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>or whatever entries were provided by your ISP.
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>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
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>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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