On Wednesday 13 Nov 2002 3:07 am, Miguel M wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Im having trouble connecting to the Internet with > Mandrake 9.0 via my cable modem. I have be going at > this for like a week now. Reading away at HOWTOS at > the Linux Documentation project site and what not. > Just about everything I could get my eyes on. I have > like tripled check my network configuration and all > the right numbers are in the right place. I don't > understand whats going on. The only thing I think that > could be messing it up is that I don't understand what > they mean by host name. Could that be the problem? > Thanks for your time. Any reply would be greatly > appreciated. Thanks > > > BTW, Im using a ethernet port thats built into the > motherboard, could that be a factor as well? >
Your Host name is the 'name' of your computer. You set it in Mandrake ControlCentre>Network>Connection go through the wizard and hostname is one of the options to set. Use the format for example 'miguel.localdomain' (The localdomain bit is important if you ever run a mail server) *SOME* cable modem operators require that the Hostname should be the same as your account name with the ISP in which case there is a little trick to perform to fool it. (described here) http://www.club-nihil.net/mub/viewtopic.php?t=5820&highlight=hostname It is more likely however that you simply need to configure your Lan interface correctly. Who is the ISP? and how do you configure Windows to access the cable modem? For example is DHCP enabled or disabled? You should also check that Internet and network services are running in MandrakeControlCentre>System>Services HTH derek
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