On Wednesday 15 October 2003 11:49, Len Lawrence wrote: > working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 > and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under > DHCP.
That was all he needed. The hardware (mac adress) registers itself and gets an IP adress assigned by the cable company. Mdk does that faster...the guy's a nitwit. Just connect and let MCC do the rest. It usually takes some time to register the first time up. Good luck, HarM -- Registered Linux User #197998 FSF Associate Member #901 ICQ #146191606 Mandrake HowTo's & more: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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