On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:29 pm, you wrote:
Well, I'm new to linux here, and finally settled with Mandrake after
trying many different ones. However, I seem to have gotten stuck on my
cable modem configuration. I have att@home and should be using dhcp to
obtain my ip address. Basically what happens after I stop and restart
the netowrk is getting the IP address fails. Any help with this would be
much appreciated.
@home gave you an ID number. It's in the form of Cxxx-A. In windows
this is the name of your computer (control panel - network - identity
tab).
In linux, set that as your host name, use dhcp, and your cable modem should
fire right up.
The easiest way to set the host name is to go into mandrake control center,
then network-connection-configure.
the only downside is your bash prompt will be [user@cxxx-a user]$,
although there's surely ways to change that.
There's a still easier way to specify this.
Travel to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts
Edit your ifcfg-eth0 file to include (at the top) the line
DHCP_HOSTNAME=cx{your details here]-a
This worked fine for me, and avoids the silly hostname prompt.
--mapdock
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