Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 10:51:12 -0500, you wrote: You didn't say if you had it working or not. Oh, my bad...no its still not working. I don't think it sees my card; like I said when I typed in ifconfig eth0 as you said to do, it said: eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found My /etc/dhclient.conf: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; require subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; supersede domain-name "mydomain.com mysubdomain.mydomain.com"; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.4.1; You don't really need dhclient.conf if you don't run your own DNS. OK, that takes care of that problem :-) If you don't understand /etc/resolv.conf, "man resolver" or post questions. I don't understand /etc/resolv.conf. I will try "man resolver," but since I very rarely understand those, I'm betting I'll be back. ;-) peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 19:26:45 -0600, you wrote: I left my settings alone as far as getting the nic to work. As long as you have a kernel module for the right card, you should be okay. I had a DHCP error and the card wouldn't initialize but that was from another problem. Try with no IRQ and I/O settings. OK, Ill give that a whirl... Greg -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 9:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) Open DrakConfNetworkConfigurationBasic host InformationAdaptor 1 You should find it with your system address, netmask, the card driver, DNS of your box, its status (enabled), possible to add in the I/Oport and IRQ. hth OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 I've also filled in the IP numbers in IP Nameserver 1 and 2 (the DNS numbers, I guess). Now, the thing that makes me wonder if Mandrake is seeing my nic card, is I go to Harddrake, and it doesn't have anything listed under Ethernet Card. What should I do there? Also, when I boot the machine, and its initializing everything, it gets to where its initializing eth0, and lists a path to something, but then it says invalid parameter param_irq Delaying eth0 initialization. And when I bring up a terminal and type ifup eth0 (as SU), it again tells me Delaying eth0 initialization. So whats my next move? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:16:25 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the What does this say?: ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found I guess that means its not seeing my card, eh? simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP If the NIC is to be setup by DHCP, there is no need for Primary Name and Domain, Alias, IP address, and Net mask. Also, dhclient will replace the contents of /etc/resolve.conf unless you correctly set up /etc/dhclient.conf. Just for hahas, since I don't know how to correctly set up /etc/dhclient.conf, I went to take a look at it, but it doesn't exist. Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid. It should be a FQDN like rog.slammingrooves.com Alias: rog@slammingrooves same here also. IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 IF this is a PCI card you should not have to enter the IRQ. If not, you might have to enter the I/O port also. OK, it is a PCI, and I took out the IRQ... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
You didn't say if you had it working or not. My /etc/dhclient.conf: request subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; require subnet-mask, broadcast-address, routers; supersede domain-name "mydomain.com mysubdomain.mydomain.com"; supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.4.1; You don't really need dhclient.conf if you don't run your own DNS. If you do, supersede domain-name will fill out the "domain" keyword and supersede domain-name-servers will fill out the "nameserver" keyword of /etc/resolv.conf If you don't understand /etc/resolv.conf, "man resolver" or post questions. Let us know if you got it working, Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 8:41 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sun, 5 Nov 2000 22:16:25 -0500, you wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the What does this say?: ifconfig eth0 eth0: error fetching interface information: Device not found I guess that means its not seeing my card, eh? simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP If the NIC is to be setup by DHCP, there is no need for Primary Name and Domain, Alias, IP address, and Net mask. Also, dhclient will replace the contents of /etc/resolve.conf unless you correctly set up /etc/dhclient.conf. Just for hahas, since I don't know how to correctly set up /etc/dhclient.conf, I went to take a look at it, but it doesn't exist. Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid. It should be a FQDN like rog.slammingrooves.com Alias: rog@slammingrooves same here also. IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 IF this is a PCI card you should not have to enter the IRQ. If not, you might have to enter the I/O port also. OK, it is a PCI, and I took out the IRQ... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
Load Drakeconf, go to Network Configuration, then Basic Host Information. You can click on Adapter 1, make sure it's enabled with DHCP (if you're not static), make sure your net device is eth0 and select the kernel module for the card you have installed. I went with the 3C509B so I wouldn't have to worry with trying to get another card to work. Under Name Server specification, I added my ISP's domain and 2 DNS numbers. Good luck! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 6:39 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:55:33 -0600, you wrote: I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :) I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS numbers. OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) I don't think there was anything other than that to do with it, maybe change the hostmane or something. I don't think I've ever lost connection, whether it was a USR modem or cable modem. The ony thing I had a problem with as far as my network card was when the Linksys router I have didn't want to hand me an IP. I thought the install was borked but it was just that lousy router. :) Take Care! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Sherman Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the Internet with my cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0', where coXX is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD. One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can run it with a simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every five minutes, so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected automatically within five minutes. If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have placed this in a script called 'offline' to make things easier. On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes, but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't. So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I have: OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision subsidiary, When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says: Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and [failed] on the right. When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it says: LO Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1 Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0 Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 The info I've entered so far in netconf: Basic Host Info: Host Name host name and domain : localhost.localdomain Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 5 Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary IPs, and nothing else...does that help?) Routing and Gateways (Nothing here) Hostname search path (nothing here) Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui) IPX interface setup (nada) PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing) Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) Open DrakConfNetworkConfigurationBasic host InformationAdaptor 1 You should find it with your system address, netmask, the card driver, DNS of your box, its status (enabled), possible to add in the I/Oport and IRQ. hth OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 I've also filled in the IP numbers in IP Nameserver 1 and 2 (the DNS numbers, I guess). Now, the thing that makes me wonder if Mandrake is seeing my nic card, is I go to Harddrake, and it doesn't have anything listed under Ethernet Card. What should I do there? Also, when I boot the machine, and its initializing everything, it gets to where its initializing eth0, and lists a path to something, but then it says invalid parameter param_irq Delaying eth0 initialization. And when I bring up a terminal and type ifup eth0 (as SU), it again tells me Delaying eth0 initialization. So whats my next move? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Roger Sherman Sent: Sunday, November 05, 2000 10:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the What does this say?: ifconfig eth0 simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) Open DrakConfNetworkConfigurationBasic host InformationAdaptor 1 You should find it with your system address, netmask, the card driver, DNS of your box, its status (enabled), possible to add in the I/Oport and IRQ. hth OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP If the NIC is to be setup by DHCP, there is no need for Primary Name and Domain, Alias, IP address, and Net mask. Also, dhclient will replace the contents of /etc/resolve.conf unless you correctly set up /etc/dhclient.conf. Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] is invalid. It should be a FQDN like rog.slammingrooves.com Alias: rog@slammingrooves same here also. IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 IF this is a PCI card you should not have to enter the IRQ. If not, you might have to enter the I/O port also. I've also filled in the IP numbers in IP Nameserver 1 and 2 (the DNS numbers, I guess). Now, the thing that makes me wonder if Mandrake is seeing my nic card, is I go to Harddrake, and it doesn't have anything listed under Ethernet Card. What should I do there? Also, when I boot the machine, and its initializing everything, it gets to where its initializing eth0, and lists a path to something, but then it says invalid parameter param_irq Delaying eth0 initialization. And when I bring up a terminal and type ifup eth0 (as SU), it again tells me Delaying eth0 initialization. So whats my next move? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
Try running ifconfig -a as root. It should give you details on your network connections. On Mon, 6 Nov 2000 14:28, Roger Sherman wrote: On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 14:24:01 -0800, you wrote: OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) Open DrakConfNetworkConfigurationBasic host InformationAdaptor 1 You should find it with your system address, netmask, the card driver, DNS of your box, its status (enabled), possible to add in the I/Oport and IRQ. hth OK, heres what I have in there: Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 10 I've also filled in the IP numbers in IP Nameserver 1 and 2 (the DNS numbers, I guess). Now, the thing that makes me wonder if Mandrake is seeing my nic card, is I go to Harddrake, and it doesn't have anything listed under Ethernet Card. What should I do there? Also, when I boot the machine, and its initializing everything, it gets to where its initializing eth0, and lists a path to something, but then it says invalid parameter param_irq Delaying eth0 initialization. And when I bring up a terminal and type ifup eth0 (as SU), it again tells me Delaying eth0 initialization. So whats my next move? peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the Internet with my cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0', where coXX is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD. One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can run it with a simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every five minutes, so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected automatically within five minutes. If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have placed this in a script called 'offline' to make things easier. On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes, but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't. So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I have: OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision subsidiary, When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says: Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and [failed] on the right. When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it says: LOLink encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1 Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0 Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 The info I've entered so far in netconf: Basic Host Info: Host Name host name and domain : localhost.localdomain Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 5 Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary IPs, and nothing else...does that help?) Routing and Gateways (Nothing here) Hostname search path (nothing here) Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui) IPX interface setup (nada) PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing) Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what to put down for I/O port... the nic card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO Oh, and whenever I hit quit on netconf, it puts up a box asking if I want to enact the changes, and blah blah...it also asks if I want to see what still needs to be done, and when I click that button it says: Things to do: Create dir /ver/spool/mqueue Changing permissions of file /var/spool/mail from 42775 to 40775 Changing permissions of file /usr/bin/sendmail from 100775 to 104775 Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/ppd from 105775 to 104775 Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/510 network reload Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/51apmd start Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/5510inet restart The create dir part I can handle, the changing permissions Im reasonably sure I could figure out, the rest of it, Im a loop thats been thrown. Anywho, going by the above information, can someone walk me through the rest of it? I really want to get back into Linux full time, and its impossible without being online...I end up in Windows 90% of the time. As always, please assume I know nothing about Linux...its pretty much true. peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com -- Sridhar Dhanapalan "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad. "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
RE: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :) I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS numbers. I don't think there was anything other than that to do with it, maybe change the hostmane or something. I don't think I've ever lost connection, whether it was a USR modem or cable modem. The ony thing I had a problem with as far as my network card was when the Linksys router I have didn't want to hand me an IP. I thought the install was borked but it was just that lousy router. :) Take Care! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Sherman Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the Internet with my cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0', where coXX is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD. One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can run it with a simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every five minutes, so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected automatically within five minutes. If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have placed this in a script called 'offline' to make things easier. On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes, but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't. So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I have: OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision subsidiary, When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says: Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and [failed] on the right. When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it says: LO Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1 Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0 Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 The info I've entered so far in netconf: Basic Host Info: Host Name host name and domain : localhost.localdomain Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 5 Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary IPs, and nothing else...does that help?) Routing and Gateways (Nothing here) Hostname search path (nothing here) Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui) IPX interface setup (nada) PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing) Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what to put down for I/O port... the nic card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO Oh, and whenever I hit quit on netconf, it puts up a box asking if I want to enact the changes, and blah blah...it also asks if I want to see what still needs to be done, and when I click that button it says: Things to do: Create dir /ver/spool/mqueue Changing permissions of file /var/spool/mail from 42775 to 40775 Changing permissions of file /usr/bin/sendmail from 100775 to 104775 Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/ppd from 105775 to 104775 Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/510 network reload Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/51apmd start Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/5510inet restart The create dir part I can handle, the changing permissions Im reasonably sure I could figure out, the rest of it, Im a loop thats been thrown. Anywho, going by the above information, can someone walk me through the rest of it? I really want to get back into Linux full time, and its impossible without being online...I end up in Windows 90% of the time. As always, please assume I know nothing
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 08:55:33 -0600, you wrote: I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :) I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS numbers. OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) I don't think there was anything other than that to do with it, maybe change the hostmane or something. I don't think I've ever lost connection, whether it was a USR modem or cable modem. The ony thing I had a problem with as far as my network card was when the Linksys router I have didn't want to hand me an IP. I thought the install was borked but it was just that lousy router. :) Take Care! -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Sherman Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes... I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the Internet with my cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0', where coXX is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD. One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can run it with a simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXX-a eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every five minutes, so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected automatically within five minutes. If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have placed this in a script called 'offline' to make things easier. On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote: OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes, but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't. So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I have: OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision subsidiary, When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says: Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and [failed] on the right. When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it says: LO Link encap:Local Loopback inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0 UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1 Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0 Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 The info I've entered so far in netconf: Basic Host Info: Host Name host name and domain : localhost.localdomain Adaptor Config Mode: DHCP Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alias: rog@slammingrooves IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah Net mask: 255.255.255.192 Net Device: eth0 Kernel Module: 3c59x I/O port: IRQ: 5 Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary IPs, and nothing else...does that help?) Routing and Gateways (Nothing here) Hostname search path (nothing here) Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui) IPX interface setup (nada) PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing) Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what to put down for I/O port... the nic card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO Oh, and whenever I hit quit on netconf, it puts up a box asking if I want to enact the changes, and blah blah...it also asks if I want to see what still needs to be done, and when I click that button it says: Things to do: Create dir /ver/spool/mqueue Changing permissions of file /var/spool/mail from 42775 to 40775 Changing permissions of file /usr/bin/sendmail from 100775 to 104775 Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/ppd from 105775 to 104775 Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/510 network reload Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/51apmd start Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/5510inet restart The create dir part I can handle, the changing permissions Im reasonably sure I could
Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
OK, heres one of my fundamental problems...I don't know how to tell if my card exists as eth0...how do I do that? I apologize for the simplicity of this question, and the many to follow, but theres gonna be a bunch until I get this thing knocked off, so get your seatbelts buckled :-) Open DrakConfNetworkConfigurationBasic host InformationAdaptor 1 You should find it with your system address, netmask, the card driver, DNS of your box, its status (enabled), possible to add in the I/Oport and IRQ. hth
