Catch 22 problem setting up network

[wsimmons]

OK. You can believe this or not, but it is a networking problem. I had my RH6.1 AMD 400 K6-2, S3 (1 Meg, that's where the problem started), w/o a NIC, running fine. Because I wanted to run some 3D programs I went out and bought a DiamondMax FireGL 1000 and installed it. I rpm'ed the XFree86-3DLabs and couldn't get X to work. Whenever I tried to run Xconfigurator the scrren would go blank and stay blank for a very long time before I would CTRL-AL-DEL out. Even a reinstall of 6.1 wouldn't work. The Bugzilla guys said to download their latest patches (large files). My computer connected to the internet is a MS Windows (ATT ISP, Linux is too difficult or impossible to connect). This leaves me with the problem of downloading to my Windows machine and tranfering the files to my Linux machine. That leaves me with the floppy route (I don't want to do this, 1 rpm is 3.9 megs and would have to be broken apart) or via a network (wich I have the hub and NICs and everything). However without X installed I get giberish when ever I type netcfg. Without the network I don't hink I can get the files I need to the computer. I could go out and buy RH7 but this was supposed to be a simple inexpensive process. How do I get the network up and/or get my X running again without having to jump through hoops?
Thank you.

[ndelo]

See if you can edit your /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 and /etc/sysconfig/network files. I use RH 7, but I'm assuming they exist in RH 6 as well. Open them up in VI or pico. Then do a /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart. That should do the trick. You should be able to use linuxconf and netconf without X though. It's not as pretty as it is with X, but I think they are there.