FC6 not connecting

[Edward Dekkers]

Beartooth wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 12:13:10 +0900, Edward Dekkers wrote:
> 
>> The most obvious question would be what kind of network card is it and 
>> are the modules loading for it?
> 
> I haven't the faintest idea. I don't speak hardware -- much less try to
> handle it with trifocal fingers and arthritic eyeballs. I've never so much
> as gotten a case off a computer without breaking something trying to get
> it back on.
>  
>> Now THAT would be something you have to include in your post when you
>> ask a question like this.
> 
> OK, fine -- how do I find out? The hardware browser I see in FC6, or what
> looks to me to be one, is very different from what used to be called that
> in FC 1 - 5; but I do have a way to open something that I think will tell
> me -- once I know where and how to look. So how do I know a network card
> when I see one? I bet it isn't called that.
> 
> And what command a/o log will tell me whether modules (modules??) are
> loading? I'll be glad to do the work and report, once I know how.
> 

Jim's already answered this one but in short:

lspci for listing PCI devices in your system and
lsmod for listing loaded modules.

These need to be run from a CLI.

Regards,
Ed.

P.S. I've been using Linux since Redhat 5.2 and I STILL can not do 
everything I want graphically. I'm afraid for fixing problems like this 
the CLI is still your best bet.

P.P.S. Oh, sorry - CLI = Command Line Interface. Basically just open a 
terminal window from your menu - that is the CLI.