Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-05 Thread Gil Katz
When you start the dhcp service open in another console tail -f /var/log/messages and you will see what the kernel tels you Gil On Tuesday 03 June 2003 23:21, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:53 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Is the connection via Ethernet? If so just turn on DHCP

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-05 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Wednesday 04 June 2003 02:40 pm, Gil Katz wrote: When you start the dhcp service open in another console tail -f /var/log/messages and you will see what the kernel tels you Gil Thanks Gil, I'll try that too. A friend of mine brought his Windows XP laptop up and we tried it for about an

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread kjc
I have road runner. All I had to do was enable the DHCPD client and reboot. The rest happened automagically. Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just got cable modem service yesterday: Tech (of course) said he had never heard of "Linux" (where the Hell has he been?) Anyways, need "hand holding

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 3:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just got cable modem service yesterday: Tech (of course) said he had never heard of Linux (where the Hell has he been?) Anyways, need hand holding orientated tutorial or guide to get it up and running on Mandrake v9.1! Thanks guys! Is

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Kenneth E. Spress
:53 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help! On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 3:35 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: Just got cable modem service yesterday: Tech (of course) said he had never heard of Linux (where the Hell has he been?) Anyways, need hand holding orientated tutorial or guide

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:08 am, Kenneth E. Spress wrote: although you should remember to power cycle that cable modem so it can release the MAC address. But it would be a lot easier if you bought a router and allowed it to hand out IP addresses like a DHCP Server so you just plug in and go

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:53 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Is the connection via Ethernet? If so just turn on DHCP and thats it done! derek Yes, its hooked to eth0. This is odd, I just went into MCC - services and according to that, dhcp is turned on, set to run at boot, but is currently

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 03 Jun 2003 9:21 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:53 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Is the connection via Ethernet? If so just turn on DHCP and thats it done! derek Yes, its hooked to eth0. This is odd, I just went into MCC - services and according to that,

RE: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Dennis . R . Myers
Title: RE: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help! Ron, go into the install software mode and do a search for dhcp. You need dhcpcommon and dhcpclient and the dhcpd if I recall. Not sure but any one of those can be a show stopper if not installed. HTH Dennis M. -Original Message- From

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Technoslick
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:35 am, Ronald J. Hall graced me with: Just got cable modem service yesterday: Tech (of course) said he had never heard of Linux (where the Hell has he been?) Anyways, need hand holding orientated tutorial or guide to get it up and running on Mandrake v9.1!

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Dennis Myers
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ronald J. Hall Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 3:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help! On Tuesday 03 June 2003 10:53 am, Derek Jennings wrote: Is the connection via Ethernet? If so just turn

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread ed tharp
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 16:19, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 11:08 am, Kenneth E. Spress wrote: although you should remember to power cycle that cable modem so it can release the MAC address. But it would be a lot easier if you bought a router and allowed it to hand out IP

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Just go through the wizard in MandrakeControlCentreNetwork and tick the box for DHCP. It will start up. derek I'm pretty sure I did that - I picked the options to configure my modem, cable, and LAN. I picked dhcp for eth0 and a static

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:19 pm, ed tharp wrote: no reason your linux box could not do the same thing, if you want, with 2 network cards, but you should have no problem with dhcp enabled. what does ifconfig say? maybe you are connected. Thats what I've got right now - a Linksys card as eth0

Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Femme
On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 01:01, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Tuesday 03 June 2003 07:19 pm, ed tharp wrote: no reason your linux box could not do the same thing, if you want, with 2 network cards, but you should have no problem with dhcp enabled. what does ifconfig say? maybe you are connected.

RE: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
Surly you don't want dhcp and a static address? -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help! On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Just go

RE: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help!

2003-06-04 Thread Tony S. Sykes
help! Surly you don't want dhcp and a static address? -Original Message- From: Ronald J. Hall [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 5:36 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Need Cable-modem help! On Tuesday 03 June 2003 04:28 pm, Derek Jennings wrote