As a final sort of wrap up to this thread... I discovered the following concerning the setup of Shaw @home. After the install mandrake, if I monkeyed with the networking settings before I tried Sridhar's solution I could not get it working. On the other hand if I went directly to Sridar's solution after a clean mandrake installation it worked perfectly. I don't if this means anything to anyone but ths is what I had to do for me. Also, shaw told me of the the website that my domain was ssdt1.sk.wave.home.com. THIS WAS NOT TRUE! The actual domain is "host name".shawcable.net, or "host name".ss.shawcable.net. Basicaly I just want to bring this info forward incase anyone had similar problems in the future. Once again thanks!
----- Original Message ----- From: Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 2:19 AM To: Shane Roppel; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
Open netconf -> Host name and IP network devices -> Adaptor 1. Check
"Enabled" and "Dhcp". For Net device put "eth0" and for the kernel
module put "eepro100". Accept all of these and reboot just to be sure.
Now run "/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxxxxxx-A eth0" - you should be able
to connect to @Home. To have this execute at startup just add this
line to your /etc/rc.d/rc.local file.
On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 04:32, Shane Roppel wrote:
> 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!
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