I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0.
I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed to setting my networking info
statically. @Home is a bit odd, in that their DHCP server requires an
identifier from the client request in order to get a response.
1) backup /sbin/ifup (I used {fn.orig} for all files I'm about to tweak
2) find the line in /sbin/ifup which has
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME...
and replace with
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -I "c583xxx-a" ...
with your "account id" from @home. Note that is a capital 'i'.
Save this file, restart your network (init 3), or reboot if
you don't know how to restart services, and you should be
all set.
Hope this helps.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2036, you wrote:
> First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable
> Modems....once your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the
> INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS,
> Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for
> whatever reason is NOT using DHCP, and I am sending this from MDK now.
> HTH
> Jaguar
>
> "J Winkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi All,
> > I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the
> > internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it
> > (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places
> > that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95
> > and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc ..... I have looked
> > for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read
> > extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated.
> >
> > Jim
>
>
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