Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
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 kernelmodule put "eepro100". Accept all of these and reboot just to be sure.Now run "/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxx-A eth0" - you should be ableto connect to @Home. To have this execute at startup just add thisline 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 'csXX-a' + 'ssdt1.sk.wave.home.com'. Unfortunatly that didn't fit, so I placed 'csXX-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 'csXX-a.ss.shawcable.net'. So I went back and manualy configured everything, and still no luck. then using 'csXX-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 'csXX-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. Andersonbr clear=allhrGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at a href="http://www.hotmail.com"http://www.hotmail.com/a.br/pContent-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1"Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printableContent-Description:--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.
Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: 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 As Sridhar mentioned, many of us have posted and reposted complete play by play instructions for @Home cable. In my case, it was with Rogers Cable. The archives are my first choice. Most of the head banging was already done by us to ease the pain of installation. And, the bruises have all healed. Actually, Mandrake 7.2 has a better setup than in earlier versions. Personally, I prefer a static address including the DNS server numbers. This can be found on your invoice. If you cannot find, Shaw @Home will provide is for you. I know that some @Home cable companies were very reluctant to give static addresses to Linuxers. If you call them, tell them you're running Windows NT4. It may be a little sneaky but it works. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 The Original Tux Email Thread Creator
Re: [newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
I have Comcast@home and I always used the static configuration, but a techie that was here last month changed my line and my modem and reconfigured my windoze partition to use DHCPD. I never had that working before under linux, but after searching Deja for usenet information, I came across the following, which worked: "Yes, you have to manually edit a file, but it is not too complicated. If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$DHCP_CLIENT" != "XXX" ];then case $(basename $DHCP_CLIENT) in dhcpcd) [ -n "$DHCP_HOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="-h $DHCP_HOSTNAME" [ -n "$NEEDHOSTNAME" ] DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -H" DHCP_ARGS="$DHCP_ARGS -h chomehostname $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" 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. -- Digital Wokan, Tribal Mage of the Electronics Age Guerilla Linux Warrior
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 COxxx-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 'csXX-a' + 'ssdt1.sk.wave.home.com'. Unfortunatly that didn't fit, so I placed 'csXX-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 'csXX-a.ss.shawcable.net'. So I went back and manualy configured everything, and still no luck. then using 'csXX-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 'csXX-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. Andersonbr clear=allhrGet Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at a href="http://www.hotmail.com"http://www.hotmail.com/a.br/p Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="Attachment: 1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- 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
[newbie] Shaw @home Cable Modem Setup
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.
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
