I just made the switch from Win XP to RedHat 8.0 - I am familiar with browsing around the GUI. I also read some guides on using the terminal and also can recognize a couple of the commands they mentioned. Now - where do i start all the fun? What do i do next? I want to get busy and stuff and make this very interesting for me... what do i do in the terminal? at the moment ... i have a cable modem connected via ethernet.. however.. i cant seem to get the damn thing working in red hat i activated it but still cant connect to any sites in the browser. Oh - and my keyboard.. yea... umm its usb... and i cant use that either. I dont know how to get that working either. SO right now - i have a keyboard connected by ps/2 hehe.. all help is appreciated - thanks much

The gui is nice and a help but the real power comes from being able to do anything you can imagine from the command line. Unix allows you to send the output of one command as input to the next command for example ls -l | awk '{ print $4 }' will print the 4th column from the output of ls -l grep userid /etc/passwd will show you only the line from /etc/passwd that contains userid There are lots of how-to documents regarding the unix shell. Have a look at http://www.shelldorado.com/ or http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html/

..or look at : http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/install-guide/ or the getting-started: http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/getting-started-guide/ or read WILEY´s RED HAT Linux 8 Bible from christopher Negus ISBN 0-7645-4968-5 ..you get it much cheaper, than here in europe (40-50%) ..and activate your modem with network-connections using DHCP or others, or try to test with normal modem, if your line allowes (1 connection must be defined, to work) overseas greets

Open the Network Configuration from the System Settings menu 1) Devices: * You should see device eth0 with status Active * Select device and click on Edit button * "Activate device when computer starts" should be checked * If you connect your computer directly to your cable modem select: "Automatically obtain IP address settings with DHCP" 2) Hardware: * You should see description of eth0 network card 3) Hosts: * You should at least see IP 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain 4) DNS: * You can set "Hostname" to give a name to your computer * You should set "Primary DNS" to IP address of primary Domain server for your ISP * You should set "Secondary DNS" to IP address of secondary Domain server for your ISP Example Hostname: falcon Primary DNS: 67.60.100.5 Secondary DNS: 67.60.100.6

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