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11-20-2009, 06:23 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2008
Location: New York
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 809
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CentOS
Hello,
I just installed the latest version of CENTos but my Network card is not being recognized by the OS.
I tried the commands ifconfig and lspci but it says that those commands don't exist.
please help!
Motherboard ASUS PK5KPL-CM
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11-20-2009, 06:36 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Scientific Linux, Debian, Fedora
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What sort of network card is it?
BTW, both ifconfig and lspci live in /sbin. If you're trying to run them as a regular user, use their fully qualified names.
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11-20-2009, 06:39 PM
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Distribution: Debian
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I typed SU and entered the root password to run the commands but they didn't work so I logged off and logged in a ROOT which is NOT recommended. ok Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114.
Thanks
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11-20-2009, 06:39 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: Texas
Distribution: RHEL, Scientific Linux, Debian, Fedora
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To get root's full environment, use:
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11-20-2009, 06:42 PM
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Registered: Mar 2008
Location: New York
Distribution: Debian
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ok, and I tried what you mentioned about the commands and yes they worked that way. do you know how to change that and be able to run it without entering the PATH? thx
I like CentOS so far.. 
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11-20-2009, 06:42 PM
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Location: New York
Distribution: Debian
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lol thanks. you just answered my question!
ahahhaha
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11-21-2009, 03:02 PM
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LQ 5k Club
Registered: Jan 2008
Location: Copenhagen DK
Distribution: PCLinuxOS2023 Fedora38 + 50+ other Linux OS, for test only.
Posts: 17,520
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'lspci' is a user command too : /sbin/lspci
'su' will do for ..
1) # system-config-network
2) # /sbin/ifconfig
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11-21-2009, 09:22 PM
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...
Last edited by Smartpatrol; 03-11-2010 at 09:52 PM.
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11-24-2009, 11:26 AM
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lol I switched to Ubuntu 9.10... it just works find out of the Box. hehehe I installed Fedora 12 on my laptop and I might mess around with CentOS on my other PC that I have.
Thanks for your help!  btw I really liked CentOS Gui.
Thanks
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12-17-2009, 09:11 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2006
Distribution: Fedora Core 5
Posts: 23
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Sorry for bumping this thread but I want to know that from where can I acquire Atheros AR8121 drivers for CentOS 5.3?
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12-17-2009, 09:13 AM
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LQ Guru
Registered: May 2009
Location: Gibraltar, Gibraltar
Distribution: Fedora 20 with Awesome WM
Posts: 6,805
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Quote:
Originally Posted by roonjha
Sorry for bumping this thread but I want to know that from where can I acquire Atheros AR8121 drivers for CentOS 5.3?
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You could try here.
Kind regards,
Eric
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