Kansas? Where's that? Oh, that flat piece of land in the middle of
nowhere... :)
I should start by saying that I got my Road Runner through Multimedia. If
you're getting it through TCI (or someone else) you may have to use
rrlogin; I didn't. If you're getting it through Multimedia, you shouldn't
have to.
First, verify that the service works in Windows. If you already have the
Road Runner software installed and all your hardware works, great. If
not, try this (WITHOUT installing RR software):
Under "Control Panel/Network," set the properties for "TCP/IP
Protocol." Choose "Obtain an IP Address automatically." The DNS and
Gateway tabs should be devoid of information- although "hostname" can be
whatever you like. On the WINS tab, WINS _should_ be disabled, but
someone I know had to choose "DHCP for WINS resolution" before it would
work. This is probably the safer choice; if WINS is unavailable, using
DHCP for it won't break a thing. Leave the rest of the tabs alone. Click
"OK", exit Network settings, and reboot. Once you're up, try to ping...
oh, say 216.71.116.161. If you can, you don't have to use rrlogin! If
not, you should use rrlogin.
If you already use the Windows RR software to login, you might try to
disable it (assuming that it starts up with Windows), reboot, and see if
you can connect.
In the end, there wasn't much that I did to get hooked up with the cable
modem. In 'netconf' you can turn on DHCP, set the hostname to whatever
you desire, delete gateway/DNS info, and exit. If it works on exit,
congratulations! If not...
What I did to get it working at this point was download dhcpcd from
http://www.cps.msu.edu/~dunham/out/dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz and
tar -zxf dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2.tar.gz
cd dhcpcd-1.3.17-pl2/
su -c "make; make install"
After that, pump worked for me. Go figure. The only thing I can think of
is that this installed an updated library or some other file that pump
also calls on.
If you need to use the rrlogin program, it is available here:
http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/rrlogin.c
Compile it using
gcc -o rrlogin rrlogin.c
Then, you might wish to copy the "rrlogin" executable to /sbin or
/usr/local/sbin or wherever you please. Test it. Does it work? I sure
hope so, because if it doesn't, I have no idea how to help. I didn't
write this program, and have never used it (like I said, I don't need to
with Multimedia). To start the login program on boot, there's two things
you need to do: make a password file, and add the command to
/etc/rc.d/rc.local. A good location for the password file is /root/, and
be sure to change the mode to 600 (so only user "root" can read and write
it). Call it, say, /root/rr.password and it should contain two lines:
username
password
Now add the following line to rc.local:
/sbin/rrlogin < /root/rr.password
Please, let me know if this works. Maybe then I actually WILL write up a
mini-HOWTO.
References:
http://metalab.unc.edu/LDP/HOWTO/mini/DHCP.html
http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/rr/
http://usmcug.usm.maine.edu/~kpesce/rr/
-Matt Stegman
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