ifconfig command not found

[budman7]

When I type "ifconfig" in a terminal, I am told that ifconfig is a bad command.
Does anyone have any ideas?
And I cant get online with Fedora, but i can with WinXP.

[smindinvern]

make sure you're logged in as root, and do:

/sbin/ifconfig

make sure that /sbin is in your path:

echo $PATH # if it isn't, do:
PATH=$PATH:/sbin:/usr/sbin

[budman7]

That worked to bring the command up.
But, all it told me was that I was offline.
So I typed /sbin/ifup eth0, and it said
configuration for eth0 not found.

[smindinvern]

type:

system-config-network

you can install devices and set them up from there

[sdousley]

make sure you're logged in as root, and do:

/sbin/ifconfig

U dont actually have to be root to run ifconfig

The reason (i think) peopple think u need to be root is cos /sbin is in root's path, and not the standard user.

If (as a standard user) u run /sbin/ifconfig, it will work

Adding /sbin to the user's path isn't really worth it for ifconfig. Cos most the stuff in sbin probably does need root privileges, that's why only root has it

[budman7]

not finding network card paged through all and not listed in there
my network card is linksys gigabit network adaptor model eg1032

[smindinvern]

oooh, I've never seen linksys drivers for linux... you might check their site though

[budman7]

I switched network cards. To a Davicom Semiconductor. The status in the system-config-network says OK. But I still can't get online.

[budman7]

For some odd reason when I tried Knoppix, the internet worked fine.
So, I decided to put Vectorlinux on this pc.
Hopefully the internet will work fine then.


P.S. This is a freinds pc, who wanted to learn Linux.

[budman7]

Problem solved. Switched to SuSE 9.2, configured the DSL and the network card and then we were able to get online.