[NTLUG:Discuss] newbie making *some* progress

[Patrick R. Michaud]

RH9 is much better for newer hardware than RH73.

For the USB nic you may have to load some usb modules.  Or, under RedHat,
you might try running kudzu with the USB nic installed to see if it can detect it
or not.  

I'll see if I can get my Linksys USB wireless nic to work, and if so I'll let you
know what steps I used to do it.

As far as CLI commands are concerned, there are literally hundreds of CLI commands
available for Linux, after all, Unix was originally a command-line oriented system.
However, the official RH command to start/stop the network service is
   /sbin/service network start
   /sbin/service network stop
   /sbin/service network restart

Pm
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Patrick R. Michaud, RHCE
http://www.pmichaud.com


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:37:06PM -0600, Clay Ramsey wrote:
> Good evening all....
> 
> I scrubbed the RH73 that was on my Dell Lat. CPi notebook.  I put RH9 on
> there, and it seems better in almost all aspects.
> 
> BUT...
> 
> The USB 3Com nic I have is just not being seen..... I have traffic
> indicators on it, but the OS is just not seeing it.  It is assigning
> eth0 to an empty PCMCIA bay.  How do I make the USB NIC eth0?  
> 
> On a related note..... can you point me to a site that will list CLI
> commands for Linux?  In particular, stop/start of the networking
> service....
> 
> I appreciate the help.  I will try to make it out Sat AM.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: discuss-bounces at ntlug.org [mailto:discuss-bounces at ntlug.org] On
> Behalf Of Lance Simmons
> Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 6:45 PM
> To: NTLUG Discussion List
> Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] Linux destro recommandation
> 
> * Chris Cox <cjcox at acm.org> [031218 17:57]:
> > 
> > Debian is a good wild card choice... especially some of the
> > prepackaged variants (like Knoppix and the gazillion Knoppix follow
> > ons).  Hardware detection is excellent.  Nice to see a fall back to
> > using the frame buffer for X automatically if nothing else works!!
> > Good job.
> 
> Debian also has excellent community-based support, which is something
> the original post asked about.  Very active email lists and IRQ channels
> make it easy to get quick, useful answers to your Debian questions.  Bug
> reporting is painless and well-organized (and I've seen bugs reported
> and fixed within a matter of hours).  There's every reason to think the
> change from the RH support model to the Fedora support model will work
> out fine, but the Debian community has been doing for years what Fedora
> is (IIUC) now gearing up to do.  But I don't have any Fedora experience,
> so I can't make a direct comparison.
> 
> -- 
> Lance Simmons
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