Tim it works after your advice. Just turned the modem off, restarted the
network, and it's up and running. I can't begin to tell you how thankfull I
am for your help. I posted to a few newsgroups, week of agravation and then
you came and helped. Thanks again.
If you are ever in Michigan, USA email me. I owe you lunch.
Ilya Sterin
>From: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:37:55 -0400
>
>I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner
>server by itself,
>and not through a gateway router.
>
>Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option
>on the left,
>that reads "Network & Internet." Select that option, then select the
>Connection option.
>From what you've said below, it sounds like you've gone through this
>method.
>
>Go through and configure the card. You can select the Cable Connection, or
>LAN connection,
>either will work since they are basically the same set up. Tell it to use
>DHCP, if it
>doesn't have the software, it will prompt for the CD and will install it.
>It will tell you
>that it's going to restart the network. I can't remember if it gives you a
>choice to say
>no, but if it does, tell it now. It's just going to time out.
>
>After you've done that, power off your cable modem. Leave it off for a
>good 10 seconds or
>so, then power it back on.
>
>Now head back to your Linux box. su - to root, and run this command.
>
>[root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status
>Configured devices:
>lo eth0
>Devices that are down:
>
>Devices with modified configuration:
>
>You should get some variant of that output when you run that command.
>However if you see
>eth0 listed under "Devices that are down:" then you're network card is not
>completely
>configured. If your output does look like that, then run this command.
>
>[root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
>Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
>Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ]
>Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
>
>And that should look something like it does above. It may take a little
>bit of time at
>bringing up interface eth0, that's expected since it's trying to get an IP
>address from the
>DHCP server. If it comes back and gives you an [ OK ] then you should be
>set. But to
>make sure run the command ifconfig. Your out put will look something like
>this.
>
>[root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig
>eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> inet addr:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX
>Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
> UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:720497 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
> TX packets:123941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
> collisions:20 txqueuelen:100
> RX bytes:439288285 (418.9 Mb) TX bytes:10165271 (9.6 Mb)
> Interrupt:3 Base address:0x9400
>
>lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
> RX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
> RX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) TX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb)
>
>The numbers that are X'd out are the ones that you should look at. The
>inet addr will be
>your IP address. From there you will be able to get to the outside world
>with no problem.
>Try testing it by pinging yahoo.com, or something else that's local. Then
>check if your
>machine also downloaded the DNS information. It's stored in
>/etc/resolv.conf, and will
>like this most likely.
>
>[root@r2d2 /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
>nameserver 24.131.1.9
>nameserver 24.131.1.8
>search mw.mediaone.net
>
>That should then get your machine on the network. Now if your machine is
>going through
>another machine that's doing internet connection sharing, then you'll have
>to go other
>routes on getting your Mandrake 8 box on the Internet.
>tdh
>
>
>T. Holmes
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>
>| I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem
>| (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is
>recognized
>| and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection
>| using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an
>| ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried
>| rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I
>don't
>| really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my
>Win2K
>| system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is
>| rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the
>| applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for
>| about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto
>dhcp,
>| when setting up. A few times the applet actually showed that something
>was
>| send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure that anything was ever
>| send, since there is no way for me to verify and the applet might have a
>| different deffinition of send and consider no error as send??? Am I
>missing
>| some steps here? I did go through the archive and found that I need to
>run
>| the
>| 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxxxxxx-A eth0'
>| command. What is COxxxxxx-A are the x's need to be subsituted, or is
>this a
>| litteral meaning?
>|
>| Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.
>|
>| Ilya Sterin
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