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[Shane Roppel]

First things first again, thankyou all for responding so quickly.   I have looked into trying your solutions posted in the past Sridhar, but still to no resault. I am not a very good writer but I will try to outline the things I've tried and the questions I have a little better. First of all having dealt with widows so long I'm used to dealing with the simplified language of the 9x environment. In 'netconf' when it asked for 'host + domain' I asumed that it meant 'csXXXXXX-a' + 'ssdt1.sk.wave.home.com'. Unfortunatly that didn't fit, so I placed 'csXXXXXX-a' by it's self and the 'ssdt1.sk.wave.home.com' I place in the primary domain under dns ip and stuff. Then I tried the 'dhcpcd -d -n -h hostname eth0', and this didn't change anything. 'ifconfig -a' listed no ip and no packets sent, and I was unable to ping even my 9x ip on the same hub. So, I removed linux and reinstalled 98 got networking up did a 'ipconfig /all' to get all the ip's for dns, my ip, gateway, even dhcp server. It was here that I saw the name 'csXXXXXX-a.ss.shawcable.net'. So I went back and manualy configured everything, and still no luck. then using 'csXXXXXX-a.ss.shawcable.net' I tried again to get 'dhcpcd -d -n -h hostname eth0' to work. Finally I reset up my networking manually using 'csXXXXXX-a.ss.shawcable.net'. Nothing seems to work, and I know it is recognizing my ethernet card. I'm lost and kinda confused. I know my ethernet card is a 10/100... could it be trying to run it at 100 only? The kernal being used is 'eepro100'.   Thanks again guy's for your assistance...   ----- Original Message ----- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 2:04 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Digital Wokan; Shane Roppel Subject: Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup I have posted detailed instructions about connecting to @home some months back. You should be able to find them by looking through the list archives at http://www.linux-mandrake.com. I have not had any problems connecting to @home in at least 4 months (i.e. since implementing the system I described in the list archives), so my method appears to work well. On Sun,  4 Mar 2001 13:03, Digital Wokan wrote: > I have yet to get DHCP to work as a client to @home.  I've had to > stick with plugging in my static IP address for over a year now. > > Shane Roppel wrote: > > First things first, hello all! > > > > Ok here's my problem I cannot seem to connect to the dhcp server > > through my linux box. I am fairly proficient with windows <And > > think it sucks>, and I've tried almost every combination of > > network settings I can think of! plus I've tried some suggestions > > mentioned in this forum. Nothing has worked. I'm new to linux so > > please, could someone spell it out for me? > > > > THANKS SO MUCH! > > __________________________________________________________________ > >_______ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > > http://www.hotmail.com. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.