1. RedHat
http://www.redhat.com/docs/
2. Centos
http://centos.org/docs/5/
3. Fedora
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f12/en-US/html-single/
Create an interface manually
Just copy the following lines into a file called ifcfg-eth1 and drop it in the “/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts” folder.
then do a “service network restart”
DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=10.1.255.255 <-- replace with own HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 <-- replace with own MAC Address with your MAC Address IPADDR=10.1.0.123 <-- replace with own NETWORK=10.1.0.1 <-- replace with own gateway NETMASK=255.255.0.0 <-- replace with own network mask TYPE=Ethernet
DEVICE=eth1 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=static BROADCAST=10.1.255.255 HWADDR=00:00:00:00:00:00 IPADDR=10.1.0.123 GATEWAY=10.1.0.1 NETMASK=255.255.0.0 TYPE=Ethernet
The naming convention is crucial please pay attention to that.
The equivalent of msinfo32 in windows could easily be : dmidecode in linux redhat flavor.
So many linux flavors so little time, YCSoftware decided to stick to anything REDHAT. I assume that you are using one of them.
2. You may also try lspci for pci devices
3 or lsusb for usbdevices
4. dmesg
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