Re: help

Stephen Ndonga wrote:
>   I have redhat 7.0 on a ibm600e thinkpad and windows me on the a second
> thinkpad (same specs). I connect to the internet via comcast(previously
> att) on the windows me machine. I have a SB4220 surboard cable modem. I
> connected the win me laptop via the usb and i'm trying to connect the
> linux one via an thernet card. It's a realport xircom cardbus ethernet
> 10/100x + 56k modem (RBEM56G-100).
> 
> /.sbin/ifconfig gives me the following output:
> 
> lo Link encap:Local loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 metric:1
> RX packet:222 errors:0 dropped:0 overrruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:222 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> 
> I've checked around and i understand that i can connect the modem to 2
> computers. On my linux box, i think that it has detected the ethernet
> card as the lights go on. Apart from that i'm stuck.

You need to setup the interface eth0.  lo is the local loopback 
interface.  Setup the network with linuxconf (or some other tool), and 
then restart the network.

Forrest
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