How do I activate eth0 ?

[David Strauss]

On Fri, 2005-10-28 at 19:29 -0500, thephotoman wrote:
> Well, I'm not familiar with the graphical tools in KDE, so I'll just 
> give you the command line instructions.
> 
> $ sudo ifconfig eth0 up
> This activates the interface
> $ sudo dhclient eth0
> This assigns your IP number via DHCP, if that's what you're using. 
> Otherwise, you're going to want
> $ sudo ifconfig etho address [insert your IP number here]
> 
> Douglas Alves wrote:
> > On a dual boot machine, Windoze connects to internet fine thru my DSL,
> > but kubuntu won't.
> > 
> > I can't get KnetworkConf to recognize my password at Administrator mode
> > (it's the same I log in with).
> > 
> > Are there CLI tools for configuring network settings?

I believe this would be shorter for a static IP:
$ sudo ifconfig eth0 up [address]

-- 
David Strauss <ubuntu at david.endeavorcomputing.com>