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RHCE RHCT Exam questions:Howto configure the network card in redhat enterprise Linux

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

RHCE RHCT Exam questions:Howto configure the network card in redhat enterprise 5 Linux :

Question. I’ve installed Red Hat enterprise Linux 5 and now added one more LAN card (NIC). How do I configure the network card from the command line? I can see 2nd my network card detected while booting the IBM server.
Answer . Red hat Linux provides following tools to make changes to Network configuration such as add new card, assign IP address, change DNS server etc.

(a) GUI tool (X Windows required) - system-config-network
(b) Command line text based GUI tool (No X Windows required) - system-config-network
(c)Edit configuration files stored in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ directory

GUI can be launched using system-config-network

RHCE RHCT Exam questions : How to load USB driver in Linux

Monday, November 26, 2007

Question: RHCE RHCT Exam questions : How to load USB driver in Linux ?
Answer : in Redhat Enterprise Linux servers (RHEL3/RHEL4/RHEL5) usb drivers can be loaded on fly using modprobe command :

$modprobe usb-uhci

$modprobe usb-ohci

similarly modules can be removed or unloaded using "modprobe -r"

also insmod can be used to add module

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RHCE RHCT Exam questions

Question: How would you list loaded modules in Redhat Enterprise 3/4 Linux ?
Answer : lsmod

RHCE RHCT Linux Certification Exam: How to check memory usage

Thursday, November 22, 2007

while Preparing for RHCE and RHCT exam certification one should know how to check memory utilization in redhat enterprise Linux. one useful command is free , you can get memory usage in megabytes and gigabytes :

[root@ldev ~]# free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 992 975 16 0 137 628
-/+ buffers/cache: 210 781
Swap: 2047 0 2047