ipconfig?

[PurpleBro]

Hi,

I can't figure out how to do ipconfig/release > ipconfig/renew

I have checked in google, yet I didn't really understand what it said there. I think I understood that instead of ipconfig, it is ifconfig, yet that is all I understood.

Is there a command console in Linux?

[Dapper Dan]

You'll find a console, "gnome-terminal" in "Accessories." You're on the right track with the commands. See this for more:

Linux and UNIX ifconfig command help

Check out the examples at the bottom of the page. Oh, and welcome to Linuxforums!

[PurpleBro]

Thank you. I hope it will be a fun and enjoyable ride.

[PurpleBro]

I guess I was too quick to think it would be easy and now I can't figure out how to make the console work.

I did find it, yet when I try to type ifconfig [down] it says "command not found"

[yancek]

Check the link from Dapper Dan again. The example shows: ifconfig eth0 down.

You can run ifconfig -a to find out if eth0 is correct, it may be something else. You didn't use brackets in the command did you?

[PurpleBro]

Check the link from Dapper Dan again. The example shows: ifconfig eth0 down.

You can run ifconfig -a to find out if eth0 is correct, it may be something else. You didn't use brackets in the command did you?

I have runned ifconfig -a and it yes eth0 is correct
I did use brackets.


However, even after I did everything as you said, when I try to run the command I get a message "Permission Denied".After I got that message, I did log into the main account and changed it's setting to Administrator and tried to run it from there, yet I still got the same message.

[Dapper Dan]

Oops, yeah... we forgot that part. With Ubuntu, you have to run it as sudo. So, to connect you'd do:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

It will ask for your password. Input it and the command will run. To take it down:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

Not to be presumptuous, but you do know there is a "gui" utility in Ubuntu where you can do this?

[PurpleBro]

Oops, yeah... we forgot that part. With Ubuntu, you have to run it as sudo. So, to connect you'd do:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

It will ask for your password. Input it and the command will run. To take it down:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

Not to be presumptuous, but you do know there is a "gui" utility in Ubuntu where you can do this?

what is "gui"?

[MikeTbob]

what is "gui"?

Graphical User Interface. I think he was trying to say there are tools in your system menu somewhere, to do this from the desktop instead of the command line.

[PurpleBro]

Oops, yeah... we forgot that part. With Ubuntu, you have to run it as sudo. So, to connect you'd do:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up

It will ask for your password. Input it and the command will run. To take it down:

sudo ifconfig eth0 down

Not to be presumptuous, but you do know there is a "gui" utility in Ubuntu where you can do this?

Thanks, I think it's working this time. I tried to run it in non-admin account by mistake and found it very amusing, when it said: "user is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported"