>>>>> "Charles" == Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Charles> I solved the problem by using linuxconf. start linuxconf
Charles> (if you have x windows running ) and in the basic
Charles> configuration, specify your card name, and the irq
Charles> no. and click on the "activate the change" button. it
Charles> works perfectly.
Yeah.Do check out using "modprobe" right from the command
line.. because thats basically what linuxconf does for you.
For that matter, Fetchmailconf asks you half a million
questions and makes your .fetchmailrc for you, but if you'd been just
careful enough to "zless /usr/share/doc/fetchmail/sample.conf.gz" ,
you would realise that writing up your own .fetchmailrc takes you
*MUCH* less time than "downloading fetchmailconf.deb + dpkg -i'ing it
+ firing up fetchmailconf (which needs X) + figuring out how
fetchmailconf itself works + answering questions" ....IMHO, getting
used to X and X tools and then depending on them for your survival,
like not being able to fetch your email given a 486 running slackware,
with no X ... is no measure of your linuxing skills/abilities..
Now, with your current status, just playing around with
RedHat, you'll do fine using linuxconf and sndconfig and XConfigurator
and suchlike RedHat-specific tools ... but someday, when you decide to
so much as "try" out Debian or other non-RedHat distributions, you'd
wish you were never born, trust me...
Basically what happens is you begin to depend *way* too much
on RedHat tools.. and then its like RedHat Inc. if following the MS
Philosophy ,.. in making you get hooked to the thing first... and now
you're in trouble if you dont have those specific tools...
However, if you were to familiarise yourself with using
"modprobe" , "XF86Setup" , insmod, lsmod, depmod, rmmod, lspci,
etc. etc. and if you were given a pre-installed slackware/debian
box and asked to get eth0 up .. well, you would do it in under 5
minutes..but if you tried using tools like linuxconf... well.. you
dont have a linuxconf on non-RedHat boxen.
This is all purely my own opinion, and unasked for too.I might
have also touched on some rather controversial topics as to whether
RedHat is really helping the linux community or not.. (indirectly?)
... but all this un-asked for sermonising/preaching was because, *I*
got use to linuxconf too much and the day I tried out debian, I
thought it sucked... but only *NOW* do I realise that I actually
"Learnt" a lot of things, using debian.My point is, even a windows
user, given a redhat box and given the linuxconf interface, be able to
configure eth0 etc. etc. .. Its just how *YOU* look at it... *I* think
Linux itself is a major learning journey and an enjoyable one at
that...the fun is in battling it out with a bunch of man pages and
HOWTO's and then the joy of being able to ping another box on your
network is *MUCH* more fun than using linuxconf to do it for you.
Also, I imagine the tone of this email makes it necessary to
be on LIG and not LIH ... but I figured there were many many LIH
subscribers ... oh well..
If you wanna continue this thread, please shift to LIG or
Write me on my personal email <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> and *NOT*
LIH, 'cause you'd be getting in the way of others'...
Just FYI: here's what by-and-large, the #debian community
thinks of linuxconf..
[apt] rumour has it, linuxconf is an app to hide the harsh reality of linux from you.
Once again, you may be the kind that has a job and does cool
things at work and wouldn't really have the "time" to do command line
things... but I *still* maintain that you should atleast give
command-line-maintenance a shot.
Have a nice day.
Ravi.
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