Sarig, You said>"Any ideas on how I can get the system to initialize the interface automatically?" --
Make sure you have "ONBOOT=yes" in "/etc/sysconfig/networking/devices/ifcfg" For the serial ports, the easiest thing to do is use the program "minicom." Type the command, "minicom -s" and choose the serial port configuration from the menu. If it says the device is "/dev/modem," you will have to make sure you have a symlink to /dev/ttyS0 from /dev/modem. Or you can just change the device to /dev/ttyS0. That's for "com-1" in dos-talk. "com-1" = /dev/ttyS0 "com-2" = /dev/ttyS1 and so forth. If that doesn't work, look in the bios and see if the serial ports are enabled or not. Regards, Gregg From: Sarig Scudder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Red Hat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: A couple of newbie questions Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 13:22:51 +0200 After having been hacked I am slowly making progress on setting up a firewall for my home network. I just finished installing Redhat 7.2 on my firewall system, which is an old 486 100mhz machine, and I have successfully gotten it to recognize my network card. When I use the ifconfig eth0 .... I can see and use the interface successfully. However, when I restart the machine the system does not initialize the network card on its own like the workstation system does. I went through the same basic steps as I did in Redhat 7.0 but everytime I start the system I have to type in the ifconfig command again to get the eth0 interface up and running. Any ideas on how I can get the system to initialize the interface automatically? The other thing I would like to do is get the modem recognized which will be the outbound side of the firewall. Since the boot up checking for new hardware (kudzu I think?) is not recognizing the modem I though I would start debuggin by insuring that the serial port it is connected to is recognized by the operating system. Could somebody give me a hint as to how I might be able to check the system to see what serial ports it is aware of? Thanks in advance. ------------ Sarig How can I believe in God when just last week I got my toungue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? -- Woody Allen _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
