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by nutcracker 1 view

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I am very new to Linux. I have installed RH 7.1 and I'm trying to connect it to my MS network. When I click the network icon on the kontrol panel it says "Couldn't execute /usr/bin/kdesu "/sbin/netconf". Please install the linuxconf package."

From what I've read linuxconf package is automatically installed with RH 7.1. Why is this so?

I am using RTL8139C NIC.
Thanks in advance!

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by taisn

Hi there,

linuxconf is not automatically installed if customization option is adopted during the installation, however there is a way to install it after the Linux Operating System installed. The procedure is as follows.

Insert CD No.2 of RH 7.1 into your CD Drive, then execute the following commands:

#mount /dev/cdrom
#cd /mnt/cdrom/RedHat/RPMS
#rpm -ivh linuxconf-1.24r2-10.i386.rpm

The above commands will install the linuxconf RPM into RH 7.1

Tahir
Pakistan

by mtuppen

Once you have linuxconf installed, you will need to setup your IP info. If you can't get to it from the GUI, you can always execute it from the command line (linuxconf).

You don't have to use linuxconf, though. You can setup networking with setup, network configuration (also from the command line). If you're wanting to share drives and printers in linux with NT you might want to think about installing SAMBA (comes with RH 7.1)

Regards,
Mike.

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