Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
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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Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[newbie] Cable modem setup
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. /Cortney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
i had some trouble getting dhcp to work with att@home also, if you have a windows machine, get it running and find out your ip address. you should be able to just use that static address as mine never changed once in the year i had it. If your address does constantly change, you can purchase a static ip address from att for pretty cheap. mark On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:07, 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. /Cortney -- 2:49pm up 1 day, 11:44, 2 users, load average: 0.14, 0.12, 0.04 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
First, make sure that you're running a DHCP Client and not a DHCP Server. A client goes looking for an IP, a server hands out IP's. But the IP you need is handed out by ATT@HOME not by your machine. Secondly, make sure you have the DNS numbers for ATT's DNS servers properly configured. Make sure that your firewall (if you have one) isn't blocking OUTGOING ports as well. That would prevent you from getting Internet access as well. That one costed me 5 days of hell! But only one time ! LOL! Third, open a root console, and try these commands,...ifconfig and ifup eth0 - without the quotes. ifconfig ought to give you the Ip assigned by your ISP (ATT@HOME). If there's an IP address associated with your eth0 network card, then your problem is elsewhere. Lanman On Wednesday 28 November 2001 03:50 am, you wrote: i had some trouble getting dhcp to work with att@home also, if you have a windows machine, get it running and find out your ip address. you should be able to just use that static address as mine never changed once in the year i had it. If your address does constantly change, you can purchase a static ip address from att for pretty cheap. mark On Wednesday 28 November 2001 20:07, 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. /Cortney Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Wednesday 28 November 2001 08:07 am, 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. Matt _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
I plan to just connect a 3com card and load its driver, then config the netmasks, which reminds me, I wonder how hooking up for cable-modem is diffrent than ppp such as putting in your dns and the sub-netmask and all, I think your cable modem company gives you all these don't they? Correct me on this but its just like putting in the dns numbers in your /etc/resolv.conf file isnt it? On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, J Winkle mewed: Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
[newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
What Mandrake are you using? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Newbie [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:21 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Did @Home give you a static IP address? Seve -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/ PCI Jim What Mandrake are you using? Seve ~~~ Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Thanks for replying Seve, yes they did give a static IP. I have recorded all my internet settings to include, static IP address, DNS Server Search Order, Domain Suffix Search Order, Domain, Host, Gateway, Subnet Mask, what my computer name and workgroup is supposed to be. I can set this up by memory in Win95 but am having much difficulty in Linux-Mandrake 7.0. Any help would be most appreciated. Jim Did @Home give you a static IP address? Seve ~~ Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/ PCI Jim What Mandrake are you using? Seve ~~~ Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup
Ok, here we go... fire up DrakConf Click - Network Configuration Go to - Basic Host Information - for Hostname Tab| Hostname: put in the Host name from TCP/IP Properties | DNS Configuration Tab from your winbox Go to - the Adapter 1 Tab (linbox) "Primary name + Domain" should be the same as "Domain" in "DNS Configuration" of you winbox. "Aliases (opt)" should be blank fill in "IP Adress" and "Netmask" "Net Device" and "Kernel Module" should remain the same. Click the [Accept] button Now you're back at "Network Configurator" Select "Name Server Specification (DNS)" Fill in "IP of name server 1" "IP of name server 2 (opt)" with your "DNS Search Order" At the top, make sure "DNS Is Required for Normal Operation" is pushed in. [Accept] Now you're back to "Network Configurator" again. Select "Routing and Gateways" Push [Set] button fill that with your Gateway IP and [Enable], [Accept] In "Routes to other Networks" press [Quit] In "Network Configurator" press [Quit] In "Status of the System" press [Activate the Changes] Reboot... just kidding. However, that should be it. I've just converted two @Home winboxes over to linboxes and that's how I got them to work. Let me know how it goes or if you can't understand my gibberish. Seve, -Original Message- From: J Winkle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Saturday, February 12, 2000 11:42 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] Cable Modem Setup Sorry, Mandrake 7.0 Network Adapter = Intel EtherExpress Pro 10+/ PCI Jim What Mandrake are you using? Seve ~~~ Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim
Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]
First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable Modemsonce your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS, Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for whatever reason is NOT using DHCP, and I am sending this from MDK now. HTH Jaguar "J Winkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95 and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated. Jim Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]
I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0.
I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed to setting my networking info
statically. @Home is a bit odd, in that their DHCP server requires an
identifier from the client request in order to get a response.
1) backup /sbin/ifup (I used {fn.orig} for all files I'm about to tweak
2) find the line in /sbin/ifup which has
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME...
and replace with
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -I "c583xxx-a" ...
with your "account id" from @home. Note that is a capital 'i'.
Save this file, restart your network (init 3), or reboot if
you don't know how to restart services, and you should be
all set.
Hope this helps.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2036, you wrote:
First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable
Modemsonce your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the
INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS,
Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for
whatever reason is NOT using DHCP, and I am sending this from MDK now.
HTH
Jaguar
"J Winkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the
internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it
(correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places
that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95
and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked
for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read
extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated.
Jim
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Re: [[newbie] Cable Modem Setup]
Oops,
I'm too tired to be doing this I guess.. :)
change the /sbin/ifup $DEVICE stuff in step 2 with /sbin/dhcpcd
sorry.
Francis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Francis J.Bruening wrote:
I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0.
I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed to setting my networking info
statically. @Home is a bit odd, in that their DHCP server requires an
identifier from the client request in order to get a response.
1) backup /sbin/ifup (I used {fn.orig} for all files I'm about to tweak
2) find the line in /sbin/ifup which has
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME...
and replace with
if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -I "c583xxx-a" ...
with your "account id" from @home. Note that is a capital 'i'.
Save this file, restart your network (init 3), or reboot if
you don't know how to restart services, and you should be
all set.
Hope this helps.
On Thu, 20 Mar 2036, you wrote:
First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable
Modemsonce your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the
INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS,
Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for
whatever reason is NOT using DHCP, and I am sending this from MDK now.
HTH
Jaguar
"J Winkle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi All,
I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the
internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it
(correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places
that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95
and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc . I have looked
for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read
extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated.
Jim
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http://webmail.netscape.com.
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Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, you wrote: I had posted a message earlier, but I forgot to place a Subject. Only one person answered me, but it wasn't enough to get things going. Here's my problem... I am subscribed with Videotron (Montreal, Quebec). I installed Linux on its own HD, I swap this one and another with Win95. When doing this, I enter the Bios, change HD detection and set PnP OS to no (I installed Linux this way). During installation, I was prompted if I wanted to install networking. I answered YES, specified my NIC as an NE2000 compatible (it's an SMC 1660 ISA), specified 0x340 for the io and 9 for the IRQ. At boot, it finds eth0 information with this message... "NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 e0 29 35 f6 a8 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 9" ...but I then get a ... "Determining IP information for eth0... Operation Failed" WHat program is giving this error message, what do you need to do, do you have s static IP address or do you need to get an dynamisch IP# from your provider. ?? If its a case of getting a dynamisch IP then use DHCP-2.0 obtanable at; ftp://ftp.isc.org/isc/dhcp/ Its easy to compile and install once installed all one needs to do to get it to work is _normaly_ type dhclient eth0 There should be no need to configure and files, there is a file placed into /etc called dhclient-script which should work on a normal machine. You did not say ehat type of system you have but Redhat for example has a ew programs which will configure the interface for you and start dhcp at bootime so your eth0 gets its ip number. linuxconf is possably a likly candiadte for this issue used ina console or something like netcfg under X, you can even startX as root and use the control pannel to configure the whole interface as well. I did not have much information to go on fir a decent answer only "Determining IP information for eth0... Operation Failed" Its difficult to give exacht answers, i hope this helps. I've tried everything I could find to set up the network, but nothing does it. I've looked through http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html for anything that may help me, but I am missing something. And I thought NT Networking was a pain... If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it soo much. If I am missing some info that someone needs to decipher this, let me know and I'll post it. Thanks in advance, Rendus __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com -- Regards Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Does your cable modem provider require DNS for DHCP communications? I had a similar problem with RoadRunner, once I got put the DNS info in /etc/resolv.conf DHCP worked. Just a thought.
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
Can you post what your file looks like? All I got from their support e-mail is that I need DHCP to connect to their server. In Win95/NT I specify DNS entries (205.151.222.250, 205.151.222.251) and domain name (videotron.ca), but I can't find anything similar to Windows' Network... Linuxconf, netcfg and control-panel aren't the same... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:57:00 -0400 From: Ronald A. Yacketta Does your cable modem provider require DNS for DHCP communications? I had a similar problem with RoadRunner, once I got put the DNS info in /etc/resolv.conf DHCP worked. Just a thought. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
From: Ronald A. Yacketta resolv.conf file search rochester.rr.com rr.com nameserver 24.93.1.254 nameserver 24.93.1.126 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT="yes" IPADDR="" NETMASK="" IPXNETNUM_802_2="" IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no" IPXACTIVE_802_2="no" IPXNETNUM_802_3="" IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no" IPXACTIVE_802_3="no" IPXNETNUM_ETHERII="" IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no" IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no" IPXNETNUM_SNAP="" IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no" IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no" "Rendus Maiman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/16/99 12:41:02 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Can you post what your file looks like? All I got from their support e-mail is that I need DHCP to connect to their server. In Win95/NT I specify DNS entries (205.151.222.250, 205.151.222.251) and domain name (videotron.ca), but I can't find anything similar to Windows' Network... Linuxconf, netcfg and control-panel aren't the same... From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0 Date: Thu, 16 Sep 1999 08:57:00 -0400 From: Ronald A. Yacketta Does your cable modem provider require DNS for DHCP communications? I had a similar problem with RoadRunner, once I got put the DNS info in /etc/resolv.conf DHCP worked. Just a thought. __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
The latest version of pump is also supposed to support the -h parameter. As usual the man page has no concrete examples and I haven't been able to figure it out. I used the dhcpcd settings (mods) found here, http://members.home.net/jasonbrossa/Linux/, for a while but I have settled for the permanent settings available here: https://ms2.home.net/NetStatus/index.htm?viewonly=true. Wayne Boaz, Network Analyst O- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -O http://members.home.net/wayneboaz "Consider adoption another option." "The avalanche has already started... it's too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh - Original Message - From: Daniel Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I am not sure how your setup works, but for Rogers@home everyone is assigned a client id and in order to setup the network you need to run dhcpcd -h (put client id here). That is, you need to specify your computer name. daniel Rendus Maiman wrote: I had posted a message earlier, but I forgot to place a Subject. Only one person answered me, but it wasn't enough to get things going. Here's my problem... I am subscribed with Videotron (Montreal, Quebec). I installed Linux on its own HD, I swap this one and another with Win95. When doing this, I enter the Bios, change HD detection and set PnP OS to no (I installed Linux this way). During installation, I was prompted if I wanted to install networking. I answered YES, specified my NIC as an NE2000 compatible (it's an SMC 1660 ISA), specified 0x340 for the io and 9 for the IRQ. At boot, it finds eth0 information with this message... "NE*000 ethercard probe at 0x340: 00 e0 29 35 f6 a8 eth0: NE2000 found at 0x340, using IRQ 9" ...but I then get a ... "Determining IP information for eth0... Operation Failed" I've tried everything I could find to set up the network, but nothing does it. I've looked through http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html for anything that may help me, but I am missing something. And I thought NT Networking was a pain... If anyone can help me, I'd appreciate it soo much. If I am missing some info that someone needs to decipher this, let me know and I'll post it. Thanks in advance, Rendus __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
Thanks Axalon. It worked and now I'm a much happier camper. My final setup is the dhcp with the hard-coded ip address of the default gateway. Now I only have to figure out how to set my video to something different than 320x200 :-( Thanks again, Sean - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] See my other postings on dhcp/cable modems if you need to/have to use dhcp. This is a gateway problem, run winipcfg in winders and find the default gw and input it in linux(test manualy w/ "route add default gw x.x.x.x eth0", (any @home techs can stfu, or fix this shitty network you have us on) in general the @home techs are morons they pulled most of them over from the lines crews, the only ones worth squat are the ones that got shipped to @home for training (one from each sub contracter) If they actualy got dhcp setup i'll be amazed. If your paper work is like mine the gw is listed on it aside the other info as DG=x.x.x.x
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Sat, 17 Jul 1999, Sean Brzozowski wrote: Thanks Axalon. It worked and now I'm a much happier camper. My final setup is the dhcp with the hard-coded ip address of the default gateway. Now I only have to figure out how to set my video to something different than 320x200 :-( Thanks again, Sean That ones not so hard, rerun Xconfigurator, or edit /etc/X11/XF86Config manualy. At the very bottom is a stanza containing Device "My Video Card" reorder the "Modes" to start with the one you want. - Original Message - From: Axalon [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] See my other postings on dhcp/cable modems if you need to/have to use dhcp. This is a gateway problem, run winipcfg in winders and find the default gw and input it in linux(test manualy w/ "route add default gw x.x.x.x eth0", (any @home techs can stfu, or fix this shitty network you have us on) in general the @home techs are morons they pulled most of them over from the lines crews, the only ones worth squat are the ones that got shipped to @home for training (one from each sub contracter) If they actualy got dhcp setup i'll be amazed. If your paper work is like mine the gw is listed on it aside the other info as DG=x.x.x.x
[newbie] Cable modem setup
Can somebody help me to translate following settings into the network settings in linux? I was trying to use netconf with different configurations to no avail. Settings from cable company: --- Primary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Secondary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Subdomain address: aaa.nj.home.com IP address: 111.111.111.111 Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS Name: a-a (of course values are sample) The way I needed to set it up in Win9x and Win2000: --- Computer name: a-a Workgroup: @home Obtain IP address automatically: checked Obtain DNS server address automatically: checked DHCP enabled: checked Please help! TIA Sean Brzozowski
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup
On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Sean Brzozowski wrote: Can somebody help me to translate following settings into the network settings in linux? I was trying to use netconf with different configurations to no avail. Settings from cable company: --- Primary DNS: 111.111.111.111 Secondary DNS: 111.111.111.111 These are the nameservers, add them to /etc/resolve.conf if your not running your own cacheing dns server. Subdomain address: aaa.nj.home.com This is the domainname addedd to the end of your hostname customer-pc.city.state.home.com IP address: 111.111.111.111 you static ip address for the network card Login: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ^ ignore this it's not needed 'cept on the @home site DNS Name: a-a This is your computers name(hostname), breaks down as customer-[abc] (of course values are sample) The way I needed to set it up in Win9x and Win2000: --- Computer name: a-a Workgroup: @home Obtain IP address automatically: checked Obtain DNS server address automatically: checked DHCP enabled: checked Please help! TIA Sean Brzozowski create /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 -- DEVICE=eth0 IPADDR=24.x.x.x NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=24.x.x.0 BROADCAST=24.x.x.255 ONBOOT=yes BOOTPROTO=none USERCTL=no -- or use one of the gui setup tools, netcfg or linuxconf
