Nic
 

How can I check if the Network card is installed ok. I have Red Hat 7.1 OS on my box.
Thanks

ifconfig will display if your nic is up and running..

what type of nic do you have ? and does it state it brings it up during bootup ??

I have 3com Megahertz 10/100 LAN CardBus
Model 3CCFE575BT

I don't know why but ifconfig command doesn't work
bashL ifconfig: command not found
Thanks a lot

are you root when your issuing that command ??

yeah. I'm root(su).

do a su - or su root so you have all the commands in your path..

ifconfig is in the /sbin directory so do "/sbin/ifconf -a".

That what I got after teh command(ifconfig)

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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carries:0
collisions:0


So, the NIC card is isntalled?

Nope; if it were being recognized you would have an additional entry for "eth0" and it would have an item "MAC:" showing your card's machine address. Use "man ifconfig" to get the details on running "ifconfig" to install the card, then run the command. Red Hat users can give you a bit more detail in this area than I can, since most every distribution is a bit different from the rest in the boot-time operations.