[newbie] Smoother internet connection process?

[Han2097]

Greetings.  I have an @Home cable modem connection.  In order to access the internet 
from Linux, I must go into terminal, su to root, and issue the "dhcpcd" command.  How 
could I possibly bypass this?

Thanks!

Re: [newbie] Smoother internet connection process?

[Tom Badran]

On Monday 05 March 2001  9:07 pm, you wrote:
 Greetings.  I have an @Home cable modem connection.  In order to access the
 internet from Linux, I must go into terminal, su to root, and issue the
 "dhcpcd" command.  How could I possibly bypass this?

 Thanks!

You really should not need dhcpd running, this is the daemon to run a dhcp 
server, not client (i thought, if im wrong i sound like an idiot). Im not 
sure how cable modems work, but i think they are treated like normal nics, so 
in your netconf just activate dhcp for eth0 (might be bootp now)
-- 
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And the answer is no.   www.badran.co.uk

Re: [newbie] Smoother internet connection process?

[Shane Roppel]

I would add it to your cron, as Sridhar has suggested in the past. After I add the dhcpcd command to my cron to run on a regular basis (ie. every five min) it no longer presented me with a problem. I always have the network no matter how many times I reboot. A good way to add it to the cron, again as Sridhar has suggested, is with 'Kcron'. Just run it from a terminal in KDE. - Original Message - From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent:Monday, March 05, 2001 7:55 PM To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] Smoother internet connection process? Greetings. I have an @Home cable modem connection. In order to access the internet from Linux, I must go into terminal, su to root, and issue the "dhcpcd" command. How could I possibly bypass this?Thanks!  Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com.