This may be considered sacreligious, but what worked for mine was to bring the same box up under win/95, get it on mediaone, get all the settings, then plug them into the linux netconf. I still lose it on a reboot, but it seems to come back after a few tries of running dhcpcd with no hostname. Take it for what it is, just the observations of a newbie, BobC -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Warwick Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:18 AM To: 'Roger Sherman' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup hmmmm, well, it's not working that way for me. I've been through a bunch of reboot cycles, and no joy. thanks, Richard -----Original Message----- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:49 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup Yeah, thats what I'm saying though...once I entered that command, it initialized successfully on subsequent bootups...don't know why, but it did, and continues to... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: > Roger, > > yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it > isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the > problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. > > Thanks for the response. > Richard > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:39 PM > To: Richard Warwick > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in > init.d/networkand sbin/ifup > > > Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on > bootup, but I entered this command: > > /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] > > > And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. > > Hope it helps! > > > peace, > > Rog > > http://www.slammingrooves.com > Registered Linux user #190719 > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: > > > hi, > > > > I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with > > the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what > problem > > might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. > > > > I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something > > like " dhcpc -h c555555-a " > > where c555555-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed > the > > name to protect the guilty) > > > > When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. > > > > In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname > is > > not being passed. > > > > I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) > > calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. > > and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME > set > > in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. > > > > the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c555555-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network > > which is being read by /etc/init.d/network > > > > I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the > environment > > variables, > > set >>/var/richard > > and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in > > /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup > > > > how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the > > scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? > > > > Thanks, > > Richard Warwick > > warwickr at usa dot net > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
