Hi I think I could be tantalisingly close to getting a cable modem up and running with my Debian box (Woody on a Compaq Professional Workstation 5000 PPro SMP) if I could just get my DHCP client to talk to my cable operator's DHCP server.
The story so far: *Cable Modem side - My cable operator is ntl (England, SE London/Kent) I know that the line in to my home, the set top box (Pace DITV-1000 Phase 1b) and the cat5 UTP (crossover) cable to my Debian box is working. This is because an ntl installation technician has connected to the service using his laptop. When I have tried to connect my Debian box I know the service is available because of the info on the user information screen I can display on my TV. *My Debian Box - I believe that my Ethernet card is set-up OK because when using dmesg | more I can find: ThunderLAN driver v1.14a TLAN: eth0 irq=20, io=1400, Compaq Netelligent Integrated 10/100 TX UTP, Rev. 16 TLAN: 1 device installed, PCI: 1 EISA: 0 Also when I run ifconfig I get: eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:5F:C1:55:40 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:27288 errors:8 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:8 TX packets:35281 errors:26 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:26 collisions:1536 txqueuelen:100 RX bytes:3840126 (3.6 MiB) TX bytes:3130668 (2.9 MiB) Interrupt:20 Base address:0x1400 lo Link encap:Local Loopback UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 RX packets:9195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:9195 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 RX bytes:3010625 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:3010625 (2.8 MiB) For what its worth I am also getting a solid green and flashing amber LEDs on the card, unfortunately I don't have a home network or other Ethernets devices I can use to test it. The DHCP client software I am using is chcp3-client v3.0+3.0.1r when I run the dhclient command I get the following: Listening on LPF/eth0/00:80:5f:c1:55:40 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:80:5f:c1:55:40 Listening on LPF/lo/ Sending on LPF/lo/ Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12 DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11 DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6 No DHCPOFFERS received. No working leases in persistent database - sleeping. Tried the dhclient -s option on the two ntl DNS address' listed in DHCP mini-HOWTO and the STB IP addr of my box but still no joy. Ntl do not officially support Linux and getting any form of in-depth technical information out of them is almost impossible. But the DHCP mini-HOWTO and anecdotal evidence from a conversation with the ntl installation technician (unfortunately he don't know how) indicate that a Linux box can be connected. I would be very grateful if anyone could give me some pointers as to what I am missing or getting wrong. Thanks in advance James -- Personalised email by http://another.com