On 09Jan2012 09:34, Donald J. Tambeau <[email protected]> wrote:
|     Thank you Cameron but no cheers!   Using the command
| /sbin/ifconfig-a on the first Terminal did produce the eth0 and lo and
| also wlan0.  When I type in the dmesg |tail-100 ....I get bash command
| not found!    So maybe I am not typing this command correctly.

It is important to type commands precisely. There are spaces before the
dashes in the commands I provided, thus:

  /sbin/ifconfig -a

  dmesg | tail -100

The first one is the path to the "ifconfig" command executable
(/sbin/ifconfig) followed by the "-a" option (all). These are two words.

The second is two commands: the "dmesg" command, which shows the kernel's
message log and the "tail" command, which show the last few lines of a
file. By piping (the "|" symbol) "dmesg" output into the input of
"tail", and using tail's -100 option, we see the last 100 lines of the
dmesg.

|     I opened a second Terminal plug in an adapter, wait several minutes type 
dmesg | tail-100 ...I get again command not found.   I then type 
/sbin/ifconfig-a ...this time I get the following 
| bash: /sbin/ifconfig-a: No such file or directory.    I am at the root level 
when I am giving these commands.  

Spaces. There is no "ifconfig-a" command. You need the "ifconfig"
command, then a space and the "-a" option.

|     It really seems that Centos does not see the adapter.

Try the command with more precision.

I will be _very_ surprised if the kernel does not see you plug the
adapter in, even if it has not got a drive for the particular device; it
should see the USB activity.

Cheers,
-- 
Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> DoD#743
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Sam Jones <[email protected]> on the Nine Types of User:

Miracle Worker - "But it read a file from it yesterday!"  'Sir, at a guess,
                 this disk has been swallowed and regurgitated.'  "But I did
                 that a month ago, and it read a file from it yesterday!"
Advantages:     Apparently has remarkable luck when you aren't around.
Disadvantages:  People complain when scons actually use the word 'horse-puckey'.
Symptoms:       Loses all ability to do impossible when you're around.  Must
                be the kryptonite in your pocket.
Real Case:      At least three users have claimed that they've loaded IBM
                WordPerfect from Macintosh disks.


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