On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 20:53:20 +0000, Beartooth wrote: [...]
So I took out the CD and tried again. It still kept telling me device eth0 "seems not to be present." I configured an eth1; trying to activate that got the same result.
I've started from the icon, new to me, that looks like a yellow star on a blue balloon, with what might be a mouse at its lower left. Properties for that give a command "/usr/bin/system-config-network"
I can get to a box that lets me tell it to obtain IP address settings automatically with dhcp, told it yes, and tried with and without the address of my router. No Joy. The MAC address it has is the one it has always had; but probing claims that doesn't exist.
I seem to have forgotten to mention that at one point eth0 on some screen was set to use only a static IP -- and the whole other half of that screen, on which I'd've tried to tell it to get an IP from dhcp on the router, was greyed out.
I later found a different screen that did seem to let me tell it to use the dynamic IP from the router -- and I've tried restarting the network, logging out and back in, and even rebooting right after that -- with no success. So I'm not sure that the command to go get an IP is actually registering.
Any time I first reboot and/or log in, doing /sbin/ifconfig gets me only what the network connection icons do : lo only, with no indication of any eth0 nor way to add one.
I'd've thought I could become root and do "nano -w /sbin/ifconfig" -- if I knew what to add -- but what I get is four hundred-odd lines of gibberish, with a note at the bottom saying it's converted from Mac format, whatever that is.
la /etc|grep .conf gets me umpteen bazillion config files, and no doubt grepping .cfg and the like will get me bazillions more. Is there one I can open that's a text file, and figure out what to add into it??