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12-26-2009, 09:20 PM
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Registered: Feb 2007
Location: TX, USA
Distribution: fedora
Posts: 191
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Internet connection
Hi All,
I am not able to connect to internet, When I type in ifconfig command, it says command not found. Please help.
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12-26-2009, 09:26 PM
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Member
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: TX, USA
Distribution: fedora
Posts: 191
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I forgot to say I use Fedora 9.
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12-26-2009, 09:49 PM
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Registered: Jun 2009
Location: Penang, Malaysia
Distribution: Mageia, CentOS, Ubuntu
Posts: 468
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You have to be root to use ifconfig.
To switch to root:
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12-27-2009, 08:03 AM
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Moderator
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Central Florida 20 minutes from Disney World
Distribution: SlackwareŽ
Posts: 13,984
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Hi,
Quote:
Originally Posted by ongte
You have to be root to use ifconfig.
To switch to root:
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Says you!
Code:
$ /sbin/ifconfig
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:30 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1660 (1.6 KiB) TX bytes:1660 (1.6 KiB)
wlan0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:7d:5e:e5:20
inet addr:192.168.1.18 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
inet6 addr: fe80::219:7dff:fe5e:e520/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:1618408 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:429866 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:492715325 (469.8 MiB) TX bytes:101470043 (96.7 MiB)
wmaster0 Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-19-7D-5E-E5-20-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00
UP RUNNING MTU:0 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B)
As a normal user the command is not in the PATH. Now if you want to say it differently; 'If you want to make system changes then you should be root/superuser'.
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12-27-2009, 08:34 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2007
Posts: 1,047
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Quote:
Originally Posted by palisetty_suman
I forgot to say I use Fedora 9.
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