A Practical Guide to Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux

Unit 6: More Scripting in LinuxChapter 17: Configuring a LAN

By Fred R. McClurg

Linux Operating System

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Configuring New Hardware

kudzu◦Detects and configures new hardware

◦Gives RHEL information about the Network Interface Card (NIC)

Configuring a wireless NIC

You can configure a wireless NIC by:◦nm-connection-editor◦system-config-network◦iwconfig

Setting Up a Server

Samba:◦Allows Linux systems to share Windows files, directories, and printers