[GLLUG] ifconfig

[Brad Fears]

Your 'eth0' network card does not appear to have an ip address.  Are you
using it as a network connection, or do you have a wireless network card
for that?  If there is a wireless card in the machine, 'iwconfig' should
show a bit more information.

--Brad Fears


Michael J McCarty said:
> Help please.  As suggested at the last meeting, I ran ifconfig to look
> at the settings for the DSL wireless network that 'allows Linux but does
> not support it'.
>
> Well, here's what I got. The address and mask values are not within the
> range that I expect to see based on looking at the network info using
> the PC that is connected. Where do I go from here?
>
> I'm running RH 8, but will install RH 9 soon (time permitting).
>
> Thanks,
> Mike McCarty
>
> -------------------------------------------
> [Mike@localhost Mike]$ /sbin/ifconfig
> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:02:2D:68:78:19
>           UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>           RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:5 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
>           RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:1750 (1.7 Kb)
>           Interrupt:10 Base address:0x100
>
> 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:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>           TX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>           collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>           RX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb)  TX bytes:4694 (4.5 Kb)
>
> [Mike@localhost Mike]$
>
>
>
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