On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:55:33 -0600, you wrote:
>I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :)
>I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to
>install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my
>cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS
>numbers.
OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if
my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the
simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna
be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts
buckled :-)
> I don't think there was anything other than that to do with it,
>maybe change the hostmane or something. I don't think I've ever lost
>connection, whether it was a USR modem or cable modem. The ony thing I had
>a problem with as far as my network card was when the Linksys router I have
>didn't want to hand me an IP. I thought the install was borked but it was
>just that lousy router. :)
>
>Take Care!
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
>> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM
>> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Sherman
>> Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
>>
>>
>> I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the
>> Internet with my
>> cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXXXXXX-a eth0',
>> where coXXXXXX
>> is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd
>> package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD.
>>
>> One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine
>> loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat
>> this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can
>> run it with a
>> simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXXXXXX-a
>> eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every
>> five minutes,
>> so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected
>> automatically within
>> five minutes.
>>
>> If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have
>> placed this
>> in a script called 'offline' to make things easier.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote:
>> > OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months
>> > ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes,
>> > but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I
>> > have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't.
>> > So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I
>> > have:
>> >
>> > OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision
>> > subsidiary,
>> >
>> >
>> > When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where
>> > its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing
>> > on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you
>> > know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says:
>> >
>> > Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and
>> > [failed] on the right.
>> >
>> > When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it
>> > says:
>> >
>> > LO Link encap:Local Loopback
>> > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
>> > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1
>> > Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0
>> > Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>> > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
>> >
>> > The info I've entered so far in netconf:
>> >
>> > Basic Host Info:
>> >
>> > Host Name
>> > host name and domain : localhost.localdomain
>> > Adaptor
>> > Config Mode: DHCP
>> > Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > Alias: rog@slammingrooves
>> > IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah
>> > Net mask: 255.255.255.192
>> > Net Device: eth0
>> > Kernel Module: 3c59x
>> > I/O port:
>> > IRQ: 5
>> > Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the
>> > fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary
>> > IPs, and nothing else...does that help?)
>> > Routing and Gateways (Nothing here)
>> > Hostname search path (nothing here)
>> > Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui)
>> > IPX interface setup (nada)
>> > PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing)
>> >
>> > Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what
>> > to put down for I/O port...
>> >
>> > the nic card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO
>> >
>> > Oh, and whenever I hit quit on netconf, it puts up a box asking if I
>> > want to enact the changes, and blah blah...it also asks if I want to
>> > see what still needs to be done, and when I click that button it says:
>> >
>> > Things to do:
>> >
>> > Create dir /ver/spool/mqueue
>> > Changing permissions of file /var/spool/mail from 42775 to 40775
>> > Changing permissions of file /usr/bin/sendmail from 100775 to 104775
>> > Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/ppd from 105775 to 104775
>> > Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/510 network reload
>> > Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/51apmd start
>> > Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/5510inet restart
>> >
>> > The create dir part I can handle, the changing permissions Im
>> > reasonably sure I could figure out, the rest of it, Im a loop thats
>> > been thrown.
>> >
>> >
>> > Anywho, going by the above information, can someone walk me through
>> > the rest of it? I really want to get back into Linux full time, and
>> > its impossible without being online...I end up in Windows 90% of the
>> > time. As always, please assume I know nothing about Linux...its pretty
>> > much true.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > peace,
>> >
>> > Rog
>> > http://www.slammingrooves.com
>>
>> --
>> Sridhar Dhanapalan
>> "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
>> "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
>>
>
>
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
