I dual boot with Win98 and Linux. I have installed Caldera 1.3, Redhat 5.1
and 6, and Mandrake 6 without any trouble getting my cable modem to work
with Linux. I just filled in the data I got in the cable printout given me
when I started off. I think I just took the first choice in one of the
menues, something like static IP? static DNS rather than the third option
which was DHCP (which Rogers wave uses, I think).
I don't know the technical side, just that it has worked for me. My onbly
trouble is getting KDE mail clients to work. I can get e-mail with Netscape
in Linux.
Art
----- Original Message -----
From: Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Linux Newbie List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:22 AM
Subject: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner
> Our community recently got cable modem access, via RoadRunner services.
My
> family signed up right away, and we now have cable modem access to the
> Internet (everybody applaud)! However, I now have a problem.
>
> My system is dual-boot, and I've set the Windows side up no problem. All
I
> had to do was tell it to use DHCP ("Obtain an IP address automatically"),
> and set the IRQ and IO port settings for my ISA NE2000 network card, and
all
> was well. Linux, on the other hand...
>
> Up 'till now, I've used Linux on a network with no problem. This was with
a
> static IP, user-specified gateway, DNS, etc.; now that I think of it, I
was
> using Festen, though. When I installed Venus, I was (temporarily) off the
> network. Now I'm back, and with problems. My IRQ and IO settings are
good
> (in linuxconf), and I tell it to use DHCP, and leave all the other info
> blank (no DNS, gateway, etc). Then, after loading the DHCP module (I
think,
> is this what's happening?) , Linux comes back after timing out and says it
> couldn't get an address from the DHCP server.
>
> Given that Windows doesn't need to use the RoadRunner setup, Linux
shouldn't
> have to, either (right?). Is there something I'm missing, i.e. that
Windows
> takes care of behind the scenes, but Linux doesn't? I'd rather not have
to
> rely on Windows for internet access...
>
> Thanks,
> -Matt Stegman
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
