Topic: command line???

[GraemeDonaldson]

Hi, i have installed sme on my laptop and have a 3com 3589 network card(pcmcia) which is not supported by sme, so i went on a search and evetually found a rpm containing the 3com driver, now i need to use the command line to install the package, but cannot connect to the laptop to use ssh since its the network driver that needs installed. How do i get to the command line in sme? or is there a easier way to get the network card working???
Please help

[Matt Quelch]

Try a Ctrl-Alt-F1 or Ctrl-Alt-F2 at the SME Admin Console. Then login as root, and that should do the trick,

HTH
Matt

[Dan Brown]

Actually, just Alt will do it (not Ctrl-Alt), but you'd need to use F2-F6 (F1 will bring you back to the console).

[GraemeDonaldson]

Hi, sorry, yeh thanks for the controls, but how do i install a package off a cd, im not sure what command to use, i have 2 files called 3c5x9utils-1.0-3.i386.rpm and 3c5x9setup-0.05b.redhog.1-2.i386, please can u help me with the command for installing these??? thanks again

[Byte]

to install the 3c5x9utils-1.0-3.i386.rpm just goto your command line and type:-

rpm -ivh 3c5x9utils-1.0-3.i386.rpm


Will then come back to command line if successful

Hope this helps

Byte

[GraemeDonaldson]

thanks again for reply, now i've written the files onto cd with nero on my windows comp, and put the cd into the laptop and typed in that command but it says not a file or dir, will using that command know to get the file off the cd??? because when i type it and press enter it doesn't check the cd(no cd activity), i've tried changing directories to the cd mnt>cdrom but when i type dir nothing comes up. Is it nero or is it the command line?
Please help again

[Byte]

ok you will have to type at command line...

mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

if that donest work, then try....

mount /dev/hdc /mnt/cdrom

then go into that directory by typing...

cd /mnt/cdrom

then type the rpm command line

Hope this helps

[Robert]

To mount the cd, do "mount /mnt/cdrom". That will cause some cd activity. Then do "ls /mnt/cdrom" to see the contents of the cdrom. If nero burned the cd right, you'll see your rpms. Then install with "rpm -Uvh /mnt/cdrom/whatever.rpm". To unmount and eject the cdrom when you're done simply type "eject". You may want to read the manuals for the rpm and mount commands. You display them with "man rpm" and "man mount" respectively. Type "q" when you're done reading the man pages. To log off from the command line, use either "logout" or "exit".