Ony my old RH9 install I used to be able to key 'ifconfig' in the terminal and see the details of my network connection.

I am trying to set up a wireless connectivity on my FC2 machine and I don't seem to have the right package installed for ifconfig to work on it, as terminal responds that this is a bad command (even when no wireless is installed and I'm just working on ethernet). What package needs to be installed for ifconfig to work in FC2?

Also, I can connect to a wireless router....but I am not sure which one it is! How do I lookup the SSID of the router I am connected to in FC2?

is /sbin in your PATH??

something we forget to look right under our noses

Just an idea, try running it under superuser, it may be that your average user isn't allowed to play around with network settings. This is the case in Suse 9.1 anyway,

hth,

Shaun

Thanks - it was indeed

/sbin/ifconfig

on my Mac Powerbook it's just

ifconfig

I get confused switching back and forth! Thanks again. The Linux community is just awesome. I have now been able to set up Fedora to access my school's Exchange server using Evolution, I can do my school work on Open Office, I can of course do anything on the Web using Firefox. This thing is now almost 100% functional. Now to fix the wireless.......

FYI -

it is a path issue. I assume you sued to root, and doing so under FC does not
add sbin paths to the system path variable.

i know with other flavors when you su to root, paths such as /sbin and /usr/sbin are
automatically added.

This is not the case in FC, and therefore you must script something to update your paths
or explicitly run commands like /sbin/ifconfig rather than just ifconfig

Fedora is pretty bad by default with not looking to /sbin and /bin. Modify your path or use 'whereis' and 'which' cmds.

Cool - that makes sense. I don't think I had to /sbin/ in the RH9 days either, so maybe it's not just Mac confusion.