Hi all,
I've finally got a copy of Linux working after many hours and much bad language but I can't figure out how to set up my network address etc...

I'm running Trustix Secure Linux which I think is based on RedHat, but everything must be done through the command line. I have a USB SMC2206 lan interface and want to connect to my network with it. I've searched around the net a lot and have a file called Pegasus.C and no idea what I need to do with it (assuming it is the right program!)

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Cheers

Check /etc/sysconfig/network

I've edited the etc/sysconfig/network file and now it looks like this:

NETWORKING=yes
FORWARD_IPV4=false
HOSTNAME=box
GATEWAY=192.168.0.1
GATEWAYDEV=ETH0

When I try to ping the gateway I get:

Network is unreachable

I assume that it doesn't yet know what eth0 is supposed to be, how can I tell it?

Thanks

did you make sure the setting took...and have you restarted the networking service or restarted since you made the changes

edit the file:

/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I don't know if any of the changes took, I did reboot the machine.
I didn't see anything about eth0 come up in the boot screen (there's a command for getting all that stuff back isn't there?)

What do I do with this driver thing I have? I tried copying it to /etc/ but that was just a guess

Thanks

Also I don't have the file
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

I assume I can make this file with VI or something but don't know how it's supposed to look

run /sbin/ifconfig
and post the output please

Ifconfig says:

Lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0

Ifconfig says:

Lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 metric :1

rx packets:0 errors:0verruns:0 frame:0 txpackets:0

infact everything says :0 after this point


(sorry about that, I acidently tabbed onto submit :-) )

This means that the only network interface found on your computer is the loopback interface
(every computer has such an interface, with that you can make connections with your own computer)
Your lan is thus not recognized by the kernel, you have to find a driver for your USB SMC2206 lan interface.

have you tried compiling Pegasus.c ? ( $gcc pegasus.c)

If it is a module you have to load it in the kernel with insmod

I just tried using :

gcc /etc/pegasus.c

and got

/etc/pegasus.c:49 linux/usb.h: no such file or directory
/etc/pegasus.c:715 parse error
/etc/pegasus.c:973 parse error

This isn't what I wanted it to say is it?