'service network restart' should restart your ethernet interface without rebooting.
jason On Wednesday 26 February 2003 10:33, Lisa Lorenzin wrote: > hi all! > > i'm in RPM hell again, and i just can't believe there isn't an obvious > solution to this, because it seems like a such a basic utility... > > i have a laptop with redhat 7.3 on it - i did a straight laptop install, > and the only unusual choice i made was to install kde and not install > gnome. (it has a small hard drive, and i don't use gnome, so i didn't > think i'd need it.) i'm logged in as root. (i don't usually, but i'm > trying to eliminate permissions as a possible issue.) > > so... i go to change my IP address, and redhat-config-network is nowhere > to be found. the online docs[1] say there should be a "network > configuration" option under system in the kde main menu; there isn't. > redhat-config-network doesn't exist anywhere in the filesystem, either. > > this is MOST annoying. i tracked down the RPM that provides it[2] and > tried to install that, but i'm down the RPM dependency rabbithole - > redhat-config-network needs gnome-core , gnome-core needs sawfish and > control-center, sawfish and control-center need about 4 other things > apiece, and it looks like i'd have to install most of gnome just to get > the bloody config app running. > > is there something obvious that i'm missing? or is redhat's network > configuration tool really only usable if gnome is installed? that seems > incredibly b0rken to me, especially considering that other config tools > (services, printers, etc) are all accessible. i'd check bugzilla and see > if there's any kind of bug on it, but i can't get through to the site > today. > > (this wouldn't be nearly so aggravating if i could manually restart the > ethernet interface without having to reboot the blasted thing - but > that's a separate email.) > > lisa > > > 1: > http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.3-Manual/custom-guide/ch-net >work-config.html 2: redhat-config-network-1.0.0-1.i386.rpm, according to > rpmfind. _______________________________________________ TriLUG mailing list http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ: http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html
