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Old 05-15-2003, 09:44 PM   #1
RJWMU
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I'm Having Trouble Running Kudzu.


I'm trying to run Kudzu to see if it will actually recognize my ethernet card but it is saying I can't run it because of my access (can't remember the exact error). How can I get rights to change this? I'm the only user on this machine shouldn't I have full rights? Any help would be appreciated.

~RJ
 
Old 05-15-2003, 09:48 PM   #2
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You need to be root. What distro are you using? As far as I know, every distro requires you to have a root account and a user account.
 
Old 05-15-2003, 09:52 PM   #3
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I am root, i even go in and type su - and then my password and it still doesn't allow me to run it. As for the distro I don't have any clue. Where can I find it? I'm a fairly new and havn't played around too much yet. Trying to get the internet hooked up first...
 
Old 05-16-2003, 12:20 AM   #4
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If you're root you should certainly be able to run kudzu.
What's the result of ...
# id

What's the result of ...
# uname -a

-or-

# cat /proc/version

Also, how about ...

# cat /etc/modules.conf

-or-

# dmesg | grep eth0

and finally ...

# lsmod

-and-

# ifconfig
 
Old 05-16-2003, 09:54 AM   #5
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Distro is your distrobution like Gentoo, Slackware, Suse, RedHat, etc. ???
 
Old 05-16-2003, 10:18 AM   #6
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ahh...Distro...Red Hat...Sorry that was a little obvious :-( In response to Brad here is a copy of the terminal:

[root@localhost root]# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(root) groups=0(root),1(bin),2(daemon),3(sys)(wheel)
[root@localhost root]# uname -a
Linux localhost 2.4.18-19.8.0 #1 Thu Dec 12 05:39:29 EST 2002
i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
[root@localhost root]# cat /etc/modules.conf
alias parport_lowlevel parport_pc
alias eth0 eepro100
[root@localhost root]# lsmod
Module Size Used by Not tainted
nls_iso8859-1 3516 1 (autoclean)
nls_cp437 5148 1 (autoclean)
vfat 13084 1 (autoclean)
fat 38712 0 (autoclean) [vfat]
soundcore 6532 0 (autoclean)
mousedev 5524 1 (autoclean)
input 5920 0 (autoclean) [mousedev]
autofs 13348 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ds 8712 1
yenta_socket 12960 1
pcmcia_core 54784 0 [ds yenta_socket]
eepro100 22264 1
iptable_filter 2412 0 (autoclean) (unused)
ip_tables 14936 1 [iptable_filter]
ide-scsi 10512 0
scsi_mod 107240 1 [ide-scsi]
ide-cd 33608 0
cdrom 33696 0 [ide-cd]
ext3 70336 1
jbd 52212 1 [ext3]
[root@localhost root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:A5:99:9E:04
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast:127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:493 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:4 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:56305 (54.9 Kb) TX bytes:168 (168.0 b)
Interrupt:9 Base address:0x6000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:248 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:16884 (16.4 Kb) TX bytes:16884 (16.4 Kb)


Thanks for all the help...
 
Old 05-16-2003, 10:26 AM   #7
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Ok...It now activates the ethernet card...Now my problem is getting an actual connection on my apartment complex's network...any suggestions or is it something still related to my first question?
 
Old 05-16-2003, 10:47 AM   #8
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I'm sure the apt has a dhcp based network, so prob the simplest thing to do would be, at the command line run "netconfig" and just select dhcp address assignment. That should produce
ip information for eth0 when you run ifconfig the next time ...
unless you have a broadband router with a firewall between you and the rest of the apt network.
 
Old 05-16-2003, 11:59 AM   #9
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You've got eth0 configured with the local loopback address 127.0.0.1 ... that's what the "lo" interface is for. So just run
netconfig and select "[ ] Use dynamic IP configuration (BOOTP/DHCP) " save and you should get the ip info from the
dhcp server for you apt's network.
 
  


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