Endless ping and other confusions...

Ethilien · 2005-09-21 23:54:27

This is my first time using linux, except a few experiment with fedora, so I have no idea how to use the command line very well. I've been trying to get the network setup, but I keep accidentally starting endless pings when I forget to set the number of pings to complete. Is there any way to quit ping?

Another question I have is, how do you reload the network interface without rebooting?

Thanks for the help, I'll probably have plenty more stupid questions to come

Snowman · 2005-09-22 00:37:46

Ethilien wrote:

This is my first time using linux, except a few experiment with fedora, so I have no idea how to use the command line very well. I've been trying to get the network setup, but I keep accidentally starting endless pings when I forget to set the number of pings to complete. Is there any way to quit ping?

Ctrl-C will stop any program started from the command line.

Ethilien wrote:

Another question I have is, how do you reload the network interface without rebooting?

As root user, do:
/etc/rc.d/network restart

and Welcome to Arch!

Vince · 2005-09-22 05:11:21

Also, you can do
ping -c 4 www.google.com

that will ping google 4 times

xerxes2 · 2005-09-22 17:26:39

don't forget to look in the wiki, there's tons of docs that will fix most of your problems,

Ethilien · 2005-09-22 18:15:05

Thanks, now I won't get stuck in ping anymore

I've looked in the wiki a bunch, but I couldn't find anything about these problems

I guess you can use the restart command on any of those interfaces listed under rc.d?

Ethilien · 2005-09-22 18:27:32

One other question. How do I get the command line to display full screen?

phrakture · 2005-09-22 19:03:16

Ethilien wrote:

I guess you can use the restart command on any of those interfaces listed under rc.d?

Yes, the /etc/rc.d/ scripts are arch specific... they are just scripts so you can open them in an text editor if you'd like to view them.

They usually accept "start", "stop", and "restart".

Ethilien wrote:

One other question. How do I get the command line to display full screen?

When you're in X (I'm assuming you are) you can just maximize the terminal you're using. If you want to switch back to your virtual terminals (like the one you see on boot), you can use Ctrl+Alt+F1 - Ctrl+Alt+F6 (Ctrl+Alt+F7 is your X server, so you can switch back to it).

Ethilien · 2005-09-22 19:53:48

No, I haven't installed X yet...

Its the normal text-only command line that doesn't display full screen.

phrakture · 2005-09-22 20:33:24

Ethilien wrote:

No, I haven't installed X yet...
Its the normal text-only command line that doesn't display full screen.

Hmmm... do you have a camera to take a picture? You're saying your virtual terminal does not take up the entire monitor? That's odd - what kind of monitor/video card do you have?

Ethilien · 2005-09-22 22:27:02

Well, its a toshiba laptop (satelite pro 6000) with a trident video card.

I read on another site something about increasing the framebuffer size. How do you do that?
http://freeunix.dyndns.org:8088/site2/h … 6000.shtml

jftaylor21 · 2005-09-23 21:53:18

General information, including boot parameters, about the tridentfb driver can be found here:

less /usr/src/INSERT_YOUR_KERNEL_VERSION_HERE/Documentation/fb/tridentfb.txt

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