[Novices] tc command not found

[Bruce Smith]

> Please bare with me if I ask really stupid questions but Linux has
> come as a major shock to my brain washed Windows mind! Ok I have two
> issues really:
> 
> 1) I am trying to set traffic shaping and have installed the iproute2
> package (from cd using the Suse Control Center facility). I thought
> that would install all necessary traffic shaping functionality but
> apparently not.
> 
> When i tried to run my first traffic shaping command i.e.
> tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1:0 htb, I got the error:
> 
> bash: tc: command not found

tc is part of the iproute2 package, as long as you have it installed you
have "tc".

  # rpm -qf /usr/sbin/tc
  iproute2-2.4.7-870.2

> Can anyone tell me why this is?

Are you running those commands as user "root"?  If not they won't work.

> 2) Then on a different linux pc running Suse, I was trying to enable
> QoS in the kernel. According to  instruction i found on the Internet
> i should do:
> 
> cd /usr/src/linux and then 'make menuconfig', However the directory
> 'linux' does not exist. Where would I get this from and how would I
> install it ?

That's talking about rebuilding the kernel.  Hopefully SuSE has the
correction options set so you won't need to.

Otherwise you'll need the "kernel-source" package installed (will
populate the directory /usr/src/linux), and you'll have a BIG learning
curve ahead of you!  :-O

 - BS