Re: [newbie] cable modem question
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 03:16 pm, Raymond Whipple wrote: I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks. There is NO Linux 7.1, you may have mandrake 7.1 go to http://www.google.com/linux and enter dsl network howto this one looks prittie good; http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/DSL-HOWTO/ If you have trouble - come back with some specific questions -- Gerald Waugh http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com :: Phone. [011] 203.785.0699 Front Street Networks LLC | SOHO Networks Web Site Hosting 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, 06513-3203 United States Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] cable modem question
On Wednesday 22 May 2002 21:16, you wrote: I have linux 7.1 and i dont know a thing, but want to learn. I am on a cable modem but dont know how to configure linux to operate on the cable modem. I have internet through att broadband. Could someone give me a step by step instructons? Thanks. Open 'linuxconf' , go/click 'networking', go'hostname IP networking', select 'adaptor 1', enable it and select 'Dhcp'. Close linuxconf and 'yes' to restart network. Done!!!:o) Good luck, Harm. 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 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.
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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
If you're running a cable modem you have a static IP for the moment.
They may change it later, but usually they wait a few months.
As root, run this command.
[root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd status
Apache is running.
httpd: 25635 25634 20976 20975 19872 19871 19870 19869 1095
Apache-mod_perl is running.
httpd-perl: 1090 1089 1088 1087 1080
Use /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd extendedstatus for more information.
If you get something like that, then you're Apache server is running.
Then run this comamnd.
[root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig eth0 | grep inet | awk '{print $2}'
addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
Plugg the above xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx in your browser, from there you should
get the default Apache page.
You can put your HTML in /var/www/html or you can do this:
[$USER@r2d2 $USER]$ mkdir public_html
[$USER@r2d2 $USER]$ cd ..
[$USER@r2d2 /home]$ chmod 0755 $USER/ $USER/public_html/
From there copy your HTML and images to $HOME/public_html and then
access them at http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/~$USER
Give that a try and let us know how it went.
tdh
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Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
well...first we need more info about your system and network. but the really short answer is run apache. do you have a static IP number? what happens if you type in that IP number to a web browsers address window from a box connected to the internet? On Sunday 29 July 2001 22:06, OOzy Pal wrote: Hello Guys I just got a cable modem and I would like to check the site that I am working from school (i.e. show it to my professor) how can I set up my http server to do that? = Regards, OOzy What is the purpose of life? __ Do You Yahoo!? Make international calls for as low as $.04/minute with Yahoo! Messenger http://phonecard.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] cable modem, router problem
So you can't ping the router itself either? That I didn't pick up. Have you given the router itself a secondary IP address? Like 198.162.0.1? And then giving the other machines other IP addresses on that range. If you make sure that the machine knows it's gateway is 198.162.0.1, and their subnet mask is 255.255.255.255, you should be able to ping that router. What'd I'd suggest for trouble shooting this is to get rid of every extra issue. So don't plug the router into the cable modem, and only work with one machine plugged into the router. Or course make sure you're plugging your ethernet into the correct port, and make sure the router boots. I don't know what it does in the way of software, but make sure it's loaded correctly. Maybe there are lights that indicate that. From there bring up the machine. After it's completely loaded, then try pinging the address 198.162.0.1. IF that doesn't work move where the cables are, or try another cable. I'm assuming it would be using a straight through CAT 5 for this and not a cross over cable, but I'm sure the documentation should say that. There was recently something on TechTV's The ScreenSavers about this. The one they used was a LinkSys router that was also a 4 or 5 port hub. That one had a web page you could point to the router to configure it. From what I saw on the show it was pretty smooth going. Not sure if yours has something like that. So first make sure you can establish that connection. Make sure your cables are good, make sure they're plugged into the correct ports. Make sure the NIC is completely configured. But if you can plug the machine right into your cable modem and connect you should be good on the NIC config. Does the router have some sort of firewall that doesn't allow return ping packets? Again I don't have any experience with this problem, I'm just giving out suggestions of what I'd do in this case. Maybe something will be of help. tdh +- \./ | Tim Holmes -- em@il: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (0Y0) | Real men us Vi! -ooO--(_)--Ooo--+- Uptime: 1:47PM up 2 days, 21:48, 3 users, load averages: 0.02, 0.02, 0.00 | Thanks for the heads up on the MAC address but my router is able to spoof | this. But I'll give them a call and see what can happen. | | And I am clueless why I'm unable to ping my router. I have tried setting | everything to manual on my box and keepimng the dhcp settings on the router, | still can't see the router and of course connecting to my isp. Would this | also be from the MAC address issue? | | Thanks again for your help! | | Jim
Re: [newbie] cable modem, router problem
Meanwhile, I'm not exactly sure how those routers identify themselves, but I have a guess. I THINK the router's switch port has a MAC address. And that's probably why it's causing a problem. RoadRunner identifies machines on it's Cable network via MAC address. When you had your machine set up, they found out what your MAC address was, then programed the modem and the DHCP server to accept traffic from that address. Well now you've introduced something else to get an IP address. So your router goes on says I'm MAC address, give me an IP address. The DHCP server then goes hi MAC address. Nice to meet you, but I don't know who you are! Then doesn't give an IP Address. So when you remove that one link, and go directly through the cable modem, your machine does the same thing. But the DHCP server goes, AH!! I know who you are. Here's your IP address. What you'll most likely have to do is find out what the MAC address for the router is and then contact Comcast. (Or whom ever's reselling RoadRunner there. Here in Michigan it's Comcast.) Let them know you need to change the MAC address they recognize. Even explain the situation to them if needed. When I ordered two new IP addresses he told me I could just buy a router and save money, so I'm sure it's acceptable through their eyes. But again, I don't know how those routers identify themselves. So they may not actually have a MAC address. But that sound like how it's done, and that would make sense why you can't get to the outside world. Hope that helps, and I hope I'm right! lol ;0) tdh -- T. Holmes - UNIXTECHS.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Real Men Us Vi! Uptime: 8:59AM up 2 days, 22:51, 3 users, load averages: 0.03, 0.01, 0.00 | First of all thanks to everyone in advance, and I apologize for the long | post! | | I am unable to connect through my router to my cable modem. I subscribed | last week to Road Runner service here in the New York City area. In order to | set up a quick LAN I purchased a Netgear RT314 Gateway Router and 2 NIC | cards. I have 2 computers on the network; my wife's Win95 machine and my box | dual booting Win2K and Mandrake 7.1. | | On my pc in Win2K everything works fine obtaining IP and DNS addresses | automatically. And in Mandrake when I connect the cable directly from my | Netgear FA312 NIC card using dhcp, to the Toshiba DOCSIS PCX1100U cable | modem, that works fine also. But everything fails when I plug into the | router. Pump fails on boot, and also fails if I try to activate the card in | the Network Configurator control-panel. I have tried to set the IP address | manually and specifying a default gateway:192.168.0.1 (my router) but with | no luck. I am not even able to ping the router. | | I have searched and looked at every posting, archive and FAQ I could get my | hands on and cannot figure it out. All the ones that I have seen address how | to connect directly to the modem, not through a network. (Big thanks to the | Linux Road Runner HOW-TO Web site, and to Donald Becker for writing the | natsemi.c driver that got my FA312 card working!) If anybody has any ideas | or suggestions or url's that would point me into the right direction it | would be a great help. | | Here is my configuration info from Network Configurator; | NAMES | Hostname: jdowns (my account name) | Domain: nyc.rr.com | HOSTS | IP: 127.0.0.1 | Name: localhost.localdomain | Nicknames: localhost | INTERFACES | Interface: lo | Ip: 127.0.0.1 | proto: none | atboot: yes | Interface: eth0 | Ip: | proto: dhcp | atboot: yes | DEVICE: eth0 | Ip: | Netmask: 255.255.255.0 | Activate at boot time | | This is the configuration that works when I plug directly into the cable | modem. | | Again sorry for the long post, and many thanks to everyone! | | Jim Downs | | | --
Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums
bascule now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one bascule md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s bascule ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were bascule successful the md5sum is different in every case ... I'd try using a non-browser ftp or http client. I don't know what's available on Windows, but there are bound to be other options for downloading those files. Another possibility is to make sure your browser associates files ending in .iso with the MIME type application/octet-stream. I wonder if maybe it's trying to download them as plain text and hosing up literal newline or carriage return characters in the process. -- Skip Montanaro ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (847)971-7098
Re: [newbie] cable modem - attenuator - bad md5sums
I don't have any suggestions on troubleshooting your cable modem, but a suggestion -- why don't you use rsync to try to correct the downloaded iso rather than repeating the entire download. If you need help setting it up, write back with the URL of the mirror you use (and ideally, the complete path to the iso you're trying to download). rsync cuts down on bandwidth usage which speeds up your transfer and reduces bandwidth usage on the Internet. Hope this helps, Randy Kramer bascule wrote: hi folks, this is more of a hardware/general computer problem, but it's affecting my ability to get linux back after i decided to do a major restucturing of my system! i have an odd enquiry, i have just had a cable modem installed (ntl - uk) and went straight to download lm 8.0. i have had to download each iso about 5 times to get ones that didn't fail the md5sum and i am still downloading the -ext.iso now! now, when i did this sort of thing with dial up i only had one md5sum fail, but with my new super fast cable job (70 Kbyte/s ish) despite gozilla claiming that all downloads were successful the md5sum is different in every case, thinking frantically i remembered that the engineer left me an attenuator for the modem saying i might need it, is it possible that a signal that is too strong might 'distort' a download such that all the checks of download software could be fooled? i don't think so but it's the only explanation i have left, i cannot think of any reason why the resulting files should be wrong, i have three hard drives in my machine and i have downloaded to them all! i have the attenuator on now and i am trying to download, in a couple of hours i will see if i have a correct file, if any one can suggest avenues of investigation into what can cause files to be corrupted despite all appearances then i would be grateful, tia bascule
RE: [newbie] Cable modem
ITs NOT the irq.. U have to call your cable modem connection company and talk to them. They can give u the settings you need. If this is @home, you have to convice them to send you to senior tech support. Also you dont need dns stuff for setting up your cable modem. All you need is hostname.. (ur computer name) an ip, and subnet mask.. talk to the cable company to get this. --- "Owens, Blaine C" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My problem was the IRQ. On Windows98 go to Control Panel - System - Hardware and note the IRQ for your NIC. Then use Linuxconf to set the same IRQ in Linux. You might also have a problem if the 3c59 is PnP, there are ways to overcome this as well. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 5:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Cable modem Hello folks This morning I have started my cable modem conexion"under windows98". It runs fine, but I would like to have it also under linux. Unfortunately until now I have instaled internet conexion using external modem and also a lan, but the last one with IP not assignated by the server. In this case the net-card is well recognized:module 3c59. (NIC 3Com EtherLink XL TPO 10 Mb Ethernet C3C900-TPO) and harddrake detects it without problems, but I have not Idea about how to run internet; the IP is asignated by the server and primary and secondary DNS is automatic, so I don't know what to do!! Thanks a lot Francisco Alcaraz Murcia (Spain) Note: unfortunately connected using windows Could anyone help me __ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cable modem and dhcpcd help
This appears to be a problem (feature?) with @Home. The trick is to set cron to renew your connection at regular intervals, like every five minutes. Kcron is a good tool to do this (as root, of course). Simply make an entry using your dhcp initialisation line (e.g. "/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxx-A eth0") and fill in the rest. On Wed, 7 Mar 2001 04:50, darrell wrote: Hi All! Okay, first of all, things are looking pretty good. I have my rogers@home Terayon cable modem working with dhcp, and I have ipchains masquerading my 3 windows boxes. The one remaining problem has to do, apparently, with dhcpcd. After a few hours, the connection gets dropped. I assume this happens when the lease expires. Problem is, dhcpcd doesn't reconnect me, and the only way I can seem to get reconnected is to unplug the cablemodem and reboot. Surely there is a way to stay connected. Any help on this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. -- 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
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: 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 $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" Nice info... I have similar problems here in NJ with @Home. A Couple questions tho: 1. when you say "hostname" are you saying that this the is the indentification for your computer that @home designates? or is this the @Home hostname : *.home.com ? Thanks in Advance! Daniel in NJ... :)
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
you should have a name that @home gave your pc. mine is similar to cc1234567-a "Daniel B. Haun" wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$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 $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" Nice info... I have similar problems here in NJ with @Home. A Couple questions tho: 1. when you say "hostname" are you saying that this the is the indentification for your computer that @home designates? or is this the @Home hostname : *.home.com ? Thanks in Advance! Daniel in NJ... :)
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
On Thursday 08 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: you should have a name that @home gave your pc. mine is similar to cc1234567-a Ok I tried that... still won't let me get an IP of the DHCP server of @home. How do you get the dhcpcd to load at startup? Did you need to install the DHCP packages? I can only get my email to work if I plug in the IP numbers instead of using "mail" as @Home wants you to do. Everything else works... pretty much...G AIM, ICQ, Netscape, etc etc... But when it comes to the mail server they won't connect with using the IP number address. Wierd, huh? Thanjks for the info, tho...:) daniel in NJ... "Daniel B. Haun" wrote: On Wednesday 07 February 2001 20:42, you wrote: If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$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 $DEVICE" ;; You can see that I have added the parameters "-h chomehostname". Replace "chomehostname" with your @Home hostname. I *think* that's how I got things to work, I don't remember clearly. This is done on LM 7.2, and assumes that you are using the dhcpcd client. It also assumes that you have tried to manually call dhcpcd -h your_host_name, and it worked..!" Nice info... I have similar problems here in NJ with @Home. A Couple questions tho: 1. when you say "hostname" are you saying that this the is the indentification for your computer that @home designates? or is this the @Home hostname : *.home.com ? Thanks in Advance! Daniel in NJ... :)
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
I always used the static configuration, but a techie that was here this week changed my line and my modem and reconfigured my windoze partition to use DHCPD. I never had that working before under linux, but after searching Deja for usenet information, I came across the following, which worked: "Yes, you have to manually edit a file, but it is not too complicated. If I remember correctly, as root, edit the following file: /sbin/ifup Look for a section that looks like this: f [ "XXX$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..!" johnc wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2001 20:21, you wrote: Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation Yes you can configure it. I use the @home service and have always configured statically as i have never had any luck using DHCP. To configure statically you will need the following: your hostname i.e. cx12345-a your dns domain, i.e. phnx1.az.home.com IP addy (obviously) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Default Gateway, usually your IP with the last octet changed to 1. I stress "USUALLY." Your DNS server/servers usually a primary and a secondary. For email purposes the server names and or IP addresses of said servers. proxy if you use one. I may be leaving something out I'm sure someone will clue us in if I am. If you run windows you can get the majority of this info by running "winipcfg" from the start\run menu. You can get your email servers by looking at the email headers or running "netstat -a" when you send and recieve email in windows. I would say to call your cable provider but unless you get a nice tech they seem to gaurd this info rather gestapo like. Good luck to ya! -- John W
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 20:21, you wrote: Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? Mike Riffle Morgantown, WV USA http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm Montani Semper Liberi NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation Yes you can configure it. I use the @home service and have always configured statically as i have never had any luck using DHCP. To configure statically you will need the following: your hostname i.e. cx12345-a your dns domain, i.e. phnx1.az.home.com IP addy (obviously) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Default Gateway, usually your IP with the last octet changed to 1. I stress "USUALLY." Your DNS server/servers usually a primary and a secondary. For email purposes the server names and or IP addresses of said servers. proxy if you use one. I may be leaving something out I'm sure someone will clue us in if I am. If you run windows you can get the majority of this info by running "winipcfg" from the start\run menu. You can get your email servers by looking at the email headers or running "netstat -a" when you send and recieve email in windows. I would say to call your cable provider but unless you get a nice tech they seem to gaurd this info rather gestapo like. Good luck to ya! -- John W
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
The previous message was correct if you need a static IP address. There are problems with this however. If there are interruptions in your service occasionally (as is the case with North-east Ohio's RoadRunner service) you may come into conflict with another machine using the address you normally choose. I assume that the reason you desire a static IP is to make your machine more easily accessible for things like web/ftp service etc. A more elegant answer to this might be to use the dhcp client that comes with Mandrake, and then use one of the free DNS alias services that are available. A company called DNS2go.com http://www.dns2go.com will for no cost, allow you to subscribe and to choose a DNS name. After loading a simple client on the Mandrake machine the service then associates your existing dynamic IP with the static DNS name. In this way you gain easy to remember solid access to your machine and you keep the network folks of your cable service happy! johnc wrote: On Tuesday 06 February 2001 20:21, you wrote: > Just had cable access installed. Unfortunately, my provider does not offer > static IP addresses. Can I still configure it under LM 7.2? > > > Mike Riffle > > Morgantown, WV USA > http://web.mountain.net/~kneiper/rifrak.htm > Montani Semper Liberi > NRA NMLRA Friends of Fort Frederick > Prickett's Fort Memorial Foundation Yes you can configure it. I use the @home service and have always configured statically as i have never had any luck using DHCP. To configure statically you will need the following: your hostname i.e. cx12345-a your dns domain, i.e. phnx1.az.home.com IP addy (obviously) xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Subnet mask xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx Default Gateway, usually your IP with the last octet changed to 1. I stress "USUALLY." Your DNS server/servers usually a primary and a secondary. For email purposes the server names and or IP addresses of said servers. proxy if you use one. I may be leaving something out I'm sure someone will clue us in if I am. If you run windows you can get the majority of this info by running "winipcfg" from the start\run menu. You can get your email servers by looking at the email headers or running "netstat -a" when you send and recieve email in windows. I would say to call your cable provider but unless you get a nice tech they seem to gaurd this info rather gestapo like. Good luck to ya! -- John W -- North Lilly Lan Administrator School of Library and Information Science Kent State University 330-672-2782 http://lillyglasworks.dns2go.com The Goddess is Alive and Magic is Afoot!
RE: [newbie] Cable Modem and Internet Sharing
It requires a bit more effort than merely "putting in" the nic cards. 1) You must configure both cards, normally eth0 should be the connection to your hub and eth1 should be the connection to your cable modem. 2) You should be able to surf the internet BEFORE you use connection sharing. 3) You must ENABLE routing, but leave the address of the router blank or Linux will not MASQ (share) packets to your Windows Machines. Once done you can activate the Internet Connection Sharing option in Linux (reboot just in case something doesn't take). It will set up a DHCP(d) SERVER that will allocate IP addresses and configuration information to your Windows Machines. You Windows machines will need to have TCP/IP installed on them and they should be members of the same workgroup as you Linux box. Linux will take care of the rest for you. -JMS -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Kerwin Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 10:25 PM To: Newbie Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem and Internet Sharing I have Linux Mandrake 7.2 and have connected my linux box to cable internet. Someone told me that if I have a second ethernet card and hub I can connect the second ethernet card to the hub and my Windows machine to the hub and have the windows machine share the internet from the linux box. Is this true? I tried to do it with the linux internet connection sharing on the second ethernet card in my linux box but it didn't work. I am not sure what I need to put in for the Windows settings. I have an IP address from my ISP for the two machines. Can anyone help me? Your help would be appreciated. Michael Kerwin email [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes
I may be breathing air too close to the exhaust pipe, but I had the same eth0 failed during initialize message as you. I solved it by doing a total re-install of Linux on my machine. Not knowing what I was doing during the first install, but after the third install I've never had the eth0 problem again. Oh well, that's my story -- I'm sure somebody else has a better solution on this list... Dave - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 9:12 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes Hi: I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with @Home. I am able to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do a ifconfig and a netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS server names etc. While I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i give to the eth0 interface, I cannot reach anything outside the box. This is a short summary of what I did: # insmod rtl8139 # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default eth0 after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS server address etc. I check all the related .conf files. If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping anything else it just fails. I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's DHCP server but to no avail. Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the eth0 interface fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface. This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub, connected to a cable modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub, which I turned off as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows boxes work fine. I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Surya
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Woes
Assign the default gw (gateway) address. Most likely this will be 192.168.1.1 - your pings are going to you eth0 card, but it doesn't know where to go from that point. -Chris On Wednesday 24 January 2001 11:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I am trying to connect my box running linux-mandrake 7.2 with @Home. I am able to configure the eth0 interface and it does show up when I do a ifconfig and a netstat -r. I used netconf to assign the host name, DNS server names etc. While I am able to ping the machine with the IP address i give to the eth0 interface, I cannot reach anything outside the box. This is a short summary of what I did: # insmod rtl8139 # ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 up # route add default eth0 after that i went into netconf and gave it the host name, DNS server address etc. I check all the related .conf files. If i ping 192.168.1.10 it goes through. But if try to ping anything else it just fails. I tried using dhclient to see if it is able to reach @Home's DHCP server but to no avail. Another thing that I noticed is that every time I reboot, the eth0 interface fails to come up and I have to manually bring up that interface. This is my setup, I have a a nic connected to a hub, connected to a cable modem. I have two other windows boxes connected to the hub, which I turned off as I first wanted to get the linux box working. The windows boxes work fine. I think I am missing some key procedure in this. Can someone please tell me what I am doing wrong? Thanks in advance. Surya
RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup
This may be considered sacreligious, but what worked for mine was to bring the same box up under win/95, get it on mediaone, get all the settings, then plug them into the linux netconf. I still lose it on a reboot, but it seems to come back after a few tries of running dhcpcd with no hostname. Take it for what it is, just the observations of a newbie, BobC -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Richard Warwick Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2000 7:18 AM To: 'Roger Sherman' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup h, well, it's not working that way for me. I've been through a bunch of reboot cycles, and no joy. thanks, Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 3:49 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup Yeah, thats what I'm saying though...once I entered that command, it initialized successfully on subsequent bootups...don't know why, but it did, and continues to... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: Roger, yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. Thanks for the response. Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:39 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like " dhcpc -h c55-a " where c55-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed the name to protect the guilty) When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname is not being passed. I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME set in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c55-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network which is being read by /etc/init.d/network I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the environment variables, set /var/richard and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Richard Warwick warwickr at usa dot net
Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup
Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like " dhcpc -h c55-a " where c55-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed the name to protect the guilty) When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname is not being passed. I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME set in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c55-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network which is being read by /etc/init.d/network I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the environment variables, set /var/richard and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Richard Warwick warwickr at usa dot net
RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup
Roger, yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. Thanks for the response. Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:39 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like " dhcpc -h c55-a " where c55-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed the name to protect the guilty) When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname is not being passed. I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME set in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c55-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network which is being read by /etc/init.d/network I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the environment variables, set /var/richard and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Richard Warwick warwickr at usa dot net
RE: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkandsbin/ifup
Yeah, thats what I'm saying though...once I entered that command, it initialized successfully on subsequent bootups...don't know why, but it did, and continues to... peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: Roger, yeah, I've got it to work manually as well - I'm trying to figure out why it isn't working in the standard bootup scripts. - I can hack around the problem, but I'm trying to get some advice on how to fix it properly. Thanks for the response. Richard -Original Message- From: Roger Sherman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 1:39 PM To: Richard Warwick Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] CABLE MODEM NOT WORKING - DHCP_HOSTNAME in init.d/networkand sbin/ifup Hi Richard...I had a similar problem - eth0 just refused to initialize on bootup, but I entered this command: /sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h [hostname] And it would log right in, and log in on bootup most times thereafter. Hope it helps! peace, Rog http://www.slammingrooves.com Registered Linux user #190719 On Tue, 19 Dec 2000, Richard Warwick wrote: hi, I installed mandrake 7.2 from the iso images, and I'm having trouble with the dhcp client and the normal startup scripts. I think I see what problem might be occurring, but I'm not sure the best way to fix it. I'm on an att cable modem, so my dhcpc command line needs to be something like " dhcpc -h c55-a " where c55-a is the hostname that ATT assigned to me. (I've changed the name to protect the guilty) When I execute that command line manually, everything works just fine. In the normal startup, the dhcp fails because evidently the dhcp hostname is not being passed. I've figured out that the network startup script ( /etc/init.d/network ) calls the ( /sbin/ifup ) script. and the ifup script seems to need the environment variable DHCP_HOSTNAME set in order to have that be included on the dhcpc command line. the line 'DHCP_HOSTNAME=c55-a' is in the file /etc/sysconfig/network which is being read by /etc/init.d/network I added lines to the two main scripts to create a file with the environment variables, set /var/richard and in examining the output, I see the DHCP_HOSTNAME while in /etc/init.d/network, but it is not there while executing /sbin/ifup how do I fix this? has someone else had this problem? is it a bug in the scripts from mandrake? or am I doing something wrong? Thanks, Richard Warwick warwickr at usa dot net
Re: [Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2]
This is all bullshit because I have the same problem when I went from 7.1 to 7.2 with my tulip driver and cable modem. I have road runner, but I have to back out of linux and go back to M$winblows until I figure out the problem. Starz McCllelan If you can help me with this problem also please ICQ me at #95925652 "Peter Heusel" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am set up statically already, but I don't understand why repushing my modem and computer will help. I have completely reinstalled 7.1 several times and my @Home connection works everytime. However, whenever I install 7.2 and follow the exact same network configuration I cannot connect. As I said, I've gone back and forth between 7.1 and 7.2 several times and everytime I can get a connection with 7.1 but not with 7.2. I will call tech as you suggest, but I still think it has something to do with 7.2 because I've read several similar postings with the same problem involving other ethernet cards (where it worked under 7.1 but wouldn't work under 7.2) on another Mandrake newsgroup. Hi peter,- Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take care of your issue. If not reinstall your nic card. Chronos. At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote: I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection. I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection. Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a network? Any suggestions on what to try next? Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1 always works, while 7.2 always fails). Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.netaddress.com/?N=1
Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2
Hi peter,- Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take care of your issue. If not reinstall your nic card. Chronos. At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote: I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection. I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection. Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a network? Any suggestions on what to try next? Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1 always works, while 7.2 always fails).
Re: [newbie] cable modem, tulip driver and LM7.2
I am set up statically already, but I don't understand why repushing my modem and computer will help. I have completely reinstalled 7.1 several times and my @Home connection works everytime. However, whenever I install 7.2 and follow the exact same network configuration I cannot connect. As I said, I've gone back and forth between 7.1 and 7.2 several times and everytime I can get a connection with 7.1 but not with 7.2. I will call tech as you suggest, but I still think it has something to do with 7.2 because I've read several similar postings with the same problem involving other ethernet cards (where it worked under 7.1 but wouldn't work under 7.2) on another Mandrake newsgroup. Hi peter,- Actually I work for the @home network. All you need to do is call tech support and have them repush your modem and computer and set yourself up statically if you havent already. Also have the tech look at the whiteboard and see if there are any outages in your area. That should take care of your issue. If not reinstall your nic card. Chronos. At 07:12 PM 11/04/2000 -0800, you wrote: I had my @Home service working fine under Mandrake 7.1 with an Ethernet card which uses the Macronix MX987x5 driver. Under 7.1 my Ethernet card is autodetected and my Internet connection works perfectly after going through the network installation wizard. With 7.2 it correctly identifies the same Macronix driver as in 7.1, but I cannot establish an outside connection. I can ping my IP, but when I try to ping my gateway or dns server I get nothing. However, I know something is going on because I can see the lights on the cable modem blink as I try to ping the outside world. Thus, it seems the Ethernet card is doing something, but I'm not getting a connection. Since I know I configured everything just as I did under 7.1 I cannot figure out what the problem is. Has something changed with the way 7.2 configures a network? Any suggestions on what to try next? Another matter related to this has to do with the network configuration tool part of DrakConf. When I double-checked all of my network entries using this tool and saved any changes I noticed that field for host+domain cuts off the end of long names. I verified this by looking at several of the configuration files like /etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0. Since @Home provides these really long domain names you end up losing some of the characters if you use the DrakConf utility. Thus, I had to edit all the affected files to correct for this (not to mention reinstalling both 7.1 and 7.2 several times each - 7.1 always works, while 7.2 always fails).
Re: [newbie] cable modem by pc card not be recognized by linuxconf
you can ask your provider for a static ip so you wont have to use dhcp- but your dhcp should work ok. Try unplugging your cable modem for say 30 sec and plugg it back in. restart your linux box. My cable modem gets a brain glitch and dhcp dies once in a great while. If you unplug it, it will refreash everything. and dhcp works agian - Original Message - From: Shih To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 1:06 PM Subject: [newbie] cable modem by pc card not be recognized by linuxconf custid=LFW71GV-32111391 When I use dhcpd and eth0 in linuxconf, network it response device not found I had cable modem through pc card in my notebook when it boot I listen one sharp beep one obtue beep when is that mean, do linux7.1 kernel recognized my cable modem hardware setup? my isp use dhcp hope to get your tech help soon best regard Eric(Shih) Lin
Re: [newbie] cable modem by pc card not be recognized by linuxconf
Hmmm. I had that simular problem with my 3com nic in my laptop. What those beeps signify is Linux is detecting your card services and the card services is reporting there is cards physically present. ( simular to the WIN9X bootup sequence.) You are going to need to locate a compatible kernel module. Is this device a modem, eth, or some other form of device? eth meaning nic or network device. I'm running ADSL connected via nic. I had to use the tulip module for my 3c574tx PCMCIA in Redhat 6.2. The tulip kernel module is not compatible with my card in mandrake 7.1. My isp is running DHCP protocols too. You still have to get the drivers up and running first then enter in the correct servers. (domain search path, hostnames, nameservers, etc) until the system will even start to look at the internet. Once you have your drivers activated and functioning, use netconfig from the prompt (not from xwindows) and engage the tell Linux it's a DHCP you are looking for. by checking "DHCP, BOOTP" if everything is correct, your network will fire right up. Also, in my case, when I know my nic has been activated - I look at my laptop's LCD status screen... the PCMCIA display "pulses" I am also running my network here (6 system network) at 100 MBS. That might have something to do with the pulsing. who knows. Hope this helps a little. If all else fails, goto the manufacture of the cable modem and see if there is a driver. if not, go here: http://linux-directory.com/ they might not have what you are looking for off the bat but it's at least a start. On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, you wrote: custid=LFW71GV-32111391 When I use dhcpd and eth0 in linuxconf, network it response device not found I had cable modem through pc card in my notebook when it boot I listen one sharp beep one obtue beep when is that mean, do linux7.1 kernel recognized my cable modem hardware setup? my isp use dhcp hope to get your tech help soon best regard Eric(Shih) Lin Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Internet
use the RTL8139 module for your network card, set up the info using netcfg(most people should have this) once that's done, you can use 'ifup eth0' considering that network card is your first ethernet card(otherwise it may be eth1), to see if this 'ifup eth0' worked, type 'ifconfig' or 'ifconfig eth0' - Original Message - From: "Luis Rodriguez" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:55 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem Internet How can I configure mi pc to conect it to the internet. I have a cable modem and a Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet card. thanks _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Internet
Open up DrakConf and then "Network Configuration". Then find out if you have a static IP, or get your IP via DCHP from your ISP. Then fill out the apporitate stuff in "Basic Host Information". Or if you still haven't installed, during the installation it asks if you use a networked computer, so say yes, and then it'll ask how you get your IP number, and select either static or DCHP, depending on your case. How can I configure mi pc to conect it to the internet. I have a cable modem and a Realtek RTL8139 Ethernet card. thanks -- Anthony http://binaryfusion.net Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: I am in the Sacramento, California area. and my cable provider is Comcast. Would Comcast be a problem? where are you located? Which service? I'm using @Home right now in seattle washington. I've got an external cable modem and a NIC card in my computer. @Home was kind enough to give me my IP address, DNS IP, Gateway IP, basically all the info I needed to set it up in linux. Other providers are not so nice or use proprietary software that will not run on linux. I hate cable. I'm getting Speakeasy DSL in the next few weeks. Everyday from about 3pm till about 10pm my cable runs at 15-20KB. For those speeds I would have stuck with my old nine dollar a month dial up. dacia --- Robin Regennitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, Dacia and AzureRose wrote: My experience was also that DSL is faster in linux then in windows. We had a LAN with three computers on My ISDN line is also faster in Linux than in windows. Paul -- Q: What do you call a boomerang that doesn't come back? A: A stick. http://nlpagan.net - ICQ 147208 - Registered Linux User 174403 -=PINE 4.21 on Linux Mandrake 7.1=-
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
I have used both cable modem and DSL. I prefer the cable modem because it is faster in my area. The drawback of DSL is the further you are from the main office or switching cabinet the slower your speeds will be.I must have been to far away only averaged 80KB downloads with DSL. I average 300-400KB downloads. (Yes KB and not Kb).Cox@home uses dhcp but my IP has been static for around 8 mos.You have to have a legitimate host and server name such as host#.city1.home.com for you box and names for your mail servers,Default gateway IP and DNS IP. These should be provided when the tech does the install unless they have a self install option in your area.I have never noticed any real bandwidth draw down but I live in Phoenix and the technology is well established.I will give DSL credit for better security in that you are on an isolated line up to the phone company.Using a decent firewall and not sharing your files can keep you fairly safe on either setup. Regards, John From: Patti Wavinak [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable Modem. Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 14:31:12 + (GMT) Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif _ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at http://profiles.msn.com.
RE: [newbie] Cable Modem.
At 21:27 09/08/2000 -0400, you wrote: That's waht my sisters boyfriend says. He installs cable for @home. Nevertheless, my cable is ridiculously variable. As high as 150K and as low as 500k on a daily swing. Like clockwork everynight between 3 and 10pm My conneciton is as slow as a 56k dialup. My experience with DSL is that it is a little slower then cable is when cable is maxing itself out but it is also dependable and consistent! Abe /lots of stuff snipped out/ I have noticed even with T1 at the office, the internet slows way down around 3 ~ 5 PM. I have a feeling it's kids coming home from school and logging on in huge numbers, but maybe I'm all wet. I don't think it's just your cable. (I have ADSL here, BTW, and I like it fine, but then, cable Internet's not available here.) --doug
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
It's probably everyone at the office trying to avoid work the last two hours of the day! Where I work, this starts at 11:30am! :-) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Doug McGarrett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have noticed even with T1 at the office, the internet slows way down around 3 ~ 5 PM. I have a feeling it's kids coming home from school and logging on in huge numbers, but maybe I'm all wet. I don't think it's just your cable. (I have ADSL here, BTW, and I like it fine, but then, cable Internet's not available here.) --doug __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
RE: [newbie] Cable Modem.
I did not see anywhere near this dramatic of a drop off in performance when I had DSL. Typically I saw a drop from the average 90-110KB rates to about 75-50KB. On cable I'm getting a drop from 100-150KB to 10KB-500kb. That is not a typo. I don't believe that every day the internet gets so congested that every site I try to connect to can only broadcast at less then 28.8 dialup rates. My brother and dad do not have these problems with @home in the same city. They simply live in areas that have very light cable usage and have brand new lines. My dad gets somewhere between 1.5 and 3 Meg's transfer rate all the time. Even in the afternoons. @home simply will not do anything about this because my connection is "fast enough" as one of their tech support people told me. Abe = Original Message From "Greg Stewart" [EMAIL PROTECTED] = It's probably everyone at the office trying to avoid work the last two hours of the day! Where I work, this starts at 11:30am! :-) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Doug McGarrett" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I have noticed even with T1 at the office, the internet slows way down around 3 ~ 5 PM. I have a feeling it's kids coming home from school and logging on in huge numbers, but maybe I'm all wet. I don't think it's just your cable. (I have ADSL here, BTW, and I like it fine, but then, cable Internet's not available here.) --doug _ _ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif Jesus saves, Allah forgives, Chthulu thinks you'd make a nice sandwich.
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
Patti, did you do any speed tweaking with your dsl connection on the Linux box? Glenn... Patti Wavinak wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
where are you located? Which service? I'm using @Home right now in seattle washington. I've got an external cable modem and a NIC card in my computer. @Home was kind enough to give me my IP address, DNS IP, Gateway IP, basically all the info I needed to set it up in linux. Other providers are not so nice or use proprietary software that will not run on linux. I hate cable. I'm getting Speakeasy DSL in the next few weeks. Everyday from about 3pm till about 10pm my cable runs at 15-20KB. For those speeds I would have stuck with my old nine dollar a month dial up. dacia --- Robin Regennitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
speakeasy says that they support linux. From talking to their tech guys that means they give you all the info you need to set up a standard ethernet connection. They also use linux for their servers. Some of their more expensive programs include a shell account. I've had DSL and cable and I am going back to DSL because the variability of cable drives me crazy! One minute I'm going at 100K and then next I'm getting 800k. Its fast as all get out at 4am but I'm not up that late often enough to make it worth my while. Dacia --- Patti Wavinak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
My experience was also that DSL is faster in linux then in windows. We had a LAN with three computers on it two were windows and mine was mandrake7.02. My computer was about 20-25% faster then the other machines. We had a 256K ADSL line. I was getting about 60K while they were getting 35-40K. My current cable connection is about 1/3 as fast in linux as it is in windows. Thats right. Windows averages about 100K during non-peak times and linux sits at about 30K. Dacia --- Patti Wavinak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Glenn, I did no tweaking at all just set up the network in DrakConf -- Network Configuration...not only that we are on a LAN, both Larry, BigBertha, and I share the same DSL and Larry was in Netscape doing some stuff at the same time as me. What makes this so much faster is anyone's guess :-) Patti Original Message On 9/8/00, 8:26:39 AM, Glenn Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Patti, did you do any speed tweaking with your dsl connection on the Linux box? Glenn... Patti Wavinak wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
On Fri, 08 Sep 2000, you wrote: Personally I would go with DSL if it is available in your area. My reason for this is the main reason a person gets cable or DSL is because of the fast connection and being on 24/7. The more subscribers on a cable line the slower it will access (and download) depending on the amount of people that are "on" at that time. We have our DSL line through Pacbell and they do not support Linux (if you should have a problem) and I believe that most of them will say that they don't support Linux. I have figured out the reasoning for this and that is because Linux has a much faster bandwidth than Windows does. I tested this out when downloading the 7.2 Beta -- on Linux it downloaded at an average of 148 K/sec when doing it on Windows it was 52K/sec BIG DIFFERENCE!! Just throwing in my $.02 worth (add California tax 8.5%) giggle very very interesting. Patti Registered Linux User #184611 Original Message On 9/8/00, 4:15:35 AM, Greg Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.: Setting up a cable modem to work in linux is usually as easy as setting up a network card. However, apparently depending on your local provider's implementation, there are a couple things to keep in mind: Most cable providers use DHCP to assign the IPs to attached hosts, but some use Static assignments.If they use DHCP make sure you have the latest DHCPD or pumpd, whichever you plan to use. Most cable companies seem use the MAC address of the cable modem itself for LAN identification, but a few are actually using the MAC address of your internal network card. This will cause problems if you need to change the network card in your computer. Check with your cable provider, and try to get as much information out of them as possible. It may not be easy...the support techs I've had to speak with at optonline don't seem to have a clue about networking issues. The big solution is to turn off the computer, turn off the modem, and then turn both back on. Oh, and then try using WinIPConfig.exe in windows (they hardly even undestand the output of the command line "ipconfig /all". --Greg - Original Message - From: "Robin Regennitter" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am thinking about getting cable modem as my internet connection and I wonder if there would be any problem with getting connected with Linux. Has anyone got cable modem that would like to share with me. Problems or not? Like some advice before getting it. Rob __ Vous avez un site perso ? 2 millions de francs à gagner sur i(france) ! Webmasters : ZE CONCOURS ! http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/concours.emailif
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem.
Cable modems that are set up right on yourend AND the ISP should NOT slow down even if full to the brink with users, that is why there is a Peak Transfer rate/and MIN transfer rate. Just like anything in the computer world..expect less, but pleased when you get the best. :) Ha..."setup right" in this context means to constrain the bandwidth to the worst possible situation so that the user doesn't see diminished service during peak load periods. Probably not a bad idea and certainly in wide use but it doesn't seem to be doing the job from what cable subscribers experience. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
You need the following: IP Address (or DHCP) Subnet Mask Gateway DNS (extra DNS servers never hurt anyone, so see if they can't give you 2 or 3) Once you've got this info, plugging it in under "Network Configuration" (part of the Configuration Tool icon on your desktop), is easy. Just click on basic host information enter the above information. Click on Routing Gateways, enter your Gateway (Do not enable routing just yet, you may do this later if you're masqing other machines) Click on Name Servers and enter your DNSes. Click on quit. Click on Activate Changes (The window will take a bit to close) Once the window closes here's your first "Joy of Linux"... you don't need to reboot to test your new network settings. Just launch netscape and hit yahoo. n-joy -David Talbot At 03:11 AM 6/22/00 -0400, you wrote: Ask them if you have a static IP or get your IP through DCHP. Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to establish a connection with my comcast@home service and seek the wisdom (and patience) of you - the knowledgable masses. Before I can even ask a good question I need to know what I am asking so: What information will I need to have before I can attempt to get the modem up-and running, and once I have that info- where is a good place to learn what to do with the info. The cable company COMCAST will "only answer specific question but not help use the answers" I need to know what "specific questions" I need to ask them. I am using a dell dimension xpsr350 PII. the modem is a Toshiba PCX1100. it is external, and IF i am reading the system report correctly the network card is a SMC EZ Card PCI 10 Adapter. Lothar tells me that everthing is configured fine, but I can't seem to find the place, dialague box or whatever where I would establish a connection to the internet service Thanks in advance for the advice, and pleas help free me from my windows internet chain. -Eric -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
Hi Jeff, I'm not sure if this will give you all your answers. However, it helped me get up and running with my @Home cable service. Try the following link: http://members.home.net/randal.leavitt/CableModemConnectionNotes.html Good Luck! Roman Jeff Lee wrote: That would be in DrakConf (or LinuxConf). At 03:37 PM 6/21/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to establish a connection with my comcast@home service and seek the wisdom (and patience) of you - the knowledgable masses. Before I can even ask a good question I need to know what I am asking so: What information will I need to have before I can attempt to get the modem up-and running, and once I have that info- where is a good place to learn what to do with the info. The cable company COMCAST will "only answer specific question but not help use the answers" I need to know what "specific questions" I need to ask them. I am using a dell dimension xpsr350 PII. the modem is a Toshiba PCX1100. it is external, and IF i am reading the system report correctly the network card is a SMC EZ Card PCI 10 Adapter. Lothar tells me that everthing is configured fine, but I can't seem to find the place, dialague box or whatever where I would establish a connection to the internet service Thanks in advance for the advice, and pleas help free me from my windows internet chain. -Eric begin:vcard n:#179293;Roman x-mozilla-html:FALSE adr:;; version:2.1 note:(This is email is fueled by Penguin Power Only) fn:Roman - Registered Linux User #179293 end:vcard
Re: [newbie] cable modem blues no more
Mark, It was my pleasure, I'm glad everything worked out. When I first installed Mandrake I could't get my printer to work either- it is a parallel port Canon 4400 which every piece of documentatiion says should work in Linux. It worked fine in windows so I was stumped. One day as I was waiting for the LILO prompt after POST, I noticed that my parallel port was set to disable ( this is the screen immediately after the memeory check and hardware detection when you first turn your computer on and it lists everything- irq's, port settings, etc-)I went into my bios , enabled the parallel port and turned the printer on, booted into Mandrake and during the boot sequence i heard the printer initialize--IT WORKED!! I don't know if your solution to your printer problem will be as simple as this, but it is something to check as you run down the list of possible causes. Good Luck Eunice
Re: [newbie] Cable modem
If you have a dynamic ip address, like one that changes, then when your machine asks you to setup your network, then tell it to use dchp (or dchpd) someting like that, anyway, if your isp has to give you your ip numbers and stuff, then its more thanlikely a static ip On Mon, 19 Jun 2000, you wrote: Is there a site with a good how to so I can set up Mandrake 7.0 to connect on the net with a cable modem -- Windoze is a virus with a user interface. This message was created with Linux
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
That would be in DrakConf (or LinuxConf). At 03:37 PM 6/21/2000 -0400, you wrote: Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to establish a connection with my comcast@home service and seek the wisdom (and patience) of you - the knowledgable masses. Before I can even ask a good question I need to know what I am asking so: What information will I need to have before I can attempt to get the modem up-and running, and once I have that info- where is a good place to learn what to do with the info. The cable company COMCAST will "only answer specific question but not help use the answers" I need to know what "specific questions" I need to ask them. I am using a dell dimension xpsr350 PII. the modem is a Toshiba PCX1100. it is external, and IF i am reading the system report correctly the network card is a SMC EZ Card PCI 10 Adapter. Lothar tells me that everthing is configured fine, but I can't seem to find the place, dialague box or whatever where I would establish a connection to the internet service Thanks in advance for the advice, and pleas help free me from my windows internet chain. -Eric
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
Ask them if you have a static IP or get your IP through DCHP. Hello Collective, I survived my first disk partitioning and the instilation of a non-windows os but am left with a cable modem that now serves as a paper weight. I have no clue where to get info on how to establish a connection with my comcast@home service and seek the wisdom (and patience) of you - the knowledgable masses. Before I can even ask a good question I need to know what I am asking so: What information will I need to have before I can attempt to get the modem up-and running, and once I have that info- where is a good place to learn what to do with the info. The cable company COMCAST will "only answer specific question but not help use the answers" I need to know what "specific questions" I need to ask them. I am using a dell dimension xpsr350 PII. the modem is a Toshiba PCX1100. it is external, and IF i am reading the system report correctly the network card is a SMC EZ Card PCI 10 Adapter. Lothar tells me that everthing is configured fine, but I can't seem to find the place, dialague box or whatever where I would establish a connection to the internet service Thanks in advance for the advice, and pleas help free me from my windows internet chain. -Eric -- Anthony Huereca http://m3000.1wh.com Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are.
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem Blues
if you still have Windows installed , make sure the modem is connected and then boot into Windows. ( I'm assuming that the modem has already been installed and configured for use) if you're using Win98 then go to StartRun, type in winipcfg and select OK (in WinNT do the same except the command is ipconfig). A window should come up, select the Nic card and then 'more info'. Write down all the IP numbers, DNS, gateway, etc. And then just use them when you boot back into Linux. In Linux as root at the command prompt type netconf and select "Basic Host Info"; DNS; Gateways and enter the appropriate IP numbers. In X go to Drakconf and the select Network Configuration It would be a lot easier if you don't have a static IP from the cable company. You then can use DHCP. Just make sure you have dhcp installed and dhcpxd. Then just go to netconf and select DHCP , enter the appropriate gateway and everything should work ( you can use dhcpxd to acquire an IP address and the gateway) Good Luck Eunice Thompson
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email ?? -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set this up automatically if, during the install process you tell it to set up your network card with dynamic IP. On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email?? -Original Message- From: Bruce Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 3:35 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Why am I getting your email -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:24 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem well I called them again..and they said that they could not give them to me because they don't know what they are...and said that they "cannot assign static names". This is because it uses dhcp to obtain them. - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem I work for an ISP and I know how Technical Support can be...with as many calls as flood the phone center, there isn't time simply to handle every call that comes in with various software. Personally when a customer calls to ask for DNS, mail info, I give it, or direct them to our website. Check your provider's website for a "quick config sheet" or the like. Valjean On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Pittman, Merle wrote: Exactly! The fact that it is linux has nothing to do with it. They are still responsible to give you the information. With my cable provider I have to get the information to set up windows as well, and they are very willing to give you the info. They do not support linux but still give you the info and it is up to you to get it working. How can Windows set it up automatically?? Sure it can recognize the IP assigned if your ISP uses Dynamic IP addressing, but how do you configure DNS and your email servers?? -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [newbie] cable modem
I don't know, probably because Kmail does not know poop from shinola and when I press reply it don't know who to reply to. On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, you wrote: Why am I getting your email ?? -Original Message- From: Vic [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thursday, April 20, 2000 1:30 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set this up automatically if, during the install process you tell it to set up your network card with dynamic IP. On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description: -- Want to make some extra pocket change listening to your realplayer while you surf? http://www.radiofreecash.com/home.asp?ref=kittypuss Sign up for ClickDough and get paid to surf the web. http://secure.clickdough.com/servlets/cr/CRSignup.po?referral_id=kittypuss
RE: [newbie] cable modem
They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [newbie] cable modem
well that didn't work now did it..anyways like I was saying. As long as I want to stay on a cable modem, I can't change. Her argument was that they don't support Linux.why would that make a difference if they give me the info or not.. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
RE: [newbie] cable modem
Exactly! The fact that it is linux has nothing to do with it. They are still responsible to give you the information. With my cable provider I have to get the information to set up windows as well, and they are very willing to give you the info. They do not support linux but still give you the info and it is up to you to get it working. How can Windows set it up automatically?? Sure it can recognize the IP assigned if your ISP uses Dynamic IP addressing, but how do you configure DNS and your email servers?? -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [[newbie] cable modem]
In Windows...click the START button, choose RUN, type in "winipcfg" -- without quotes...choose MORE INFO, and there are all your IP/DNS/etc there...write them down, then in Linux setup NIC/DHCP (not sure myself as my cable IP is static, and I get by without using DHCP), read the HOWTO's, and get more confused...then ask for additional help in here...:) HTH Jaguar "Jacob Aaron Holbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment:Â MIME Type:Â multipart/alternative - I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
In Windows: Start-run-winipcfg-enter you have to type in winipcfg in the "open" box. I believe this will give you most of what you need - Original Message - From: "Jacob Aaron Holbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 11:57 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [[newbie] cable modem]
Well that would work in win98, but I'm running win2k pro. and winipcfg doesn't work.. - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] cable modem] In Windows...click the START button, choose RUN, type in "winipcfg" -- without quotes...choose MORE INFO, and there are all your IP/DNS/etc there...write them down, then in Linux setup NIC/DHCP (not sure myself as my cable IP is static, and I get by without using DHCP), read the HOWTO's, and get more confused...then ask for additional help in here...:) HTH Jaguar "Jacob Aaron Holbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Do you have a static IP or a dynamic IP? If you have a dynamic IP address, mandrake should set this up automatically if, during the install process you tell it to set up your network card with dynamic IP. On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, you wrote: I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook Content-Type: text/html; name="unnamed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Description:
Re: [newbie] cable modem
well I called them again..and they said that they could not give them to me because they don't know what they are...and said that they "cannot assign static names". This is because it uses dhcp to obtain them. - Original Message - From: "Valjean" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:07 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem I work for an ISP and I know how Technical Support can be...with as many calls as flood the phone center, there isn't time simply to handle every call that comes in with various software. Personally when a customer calls to ask for DNS, mail info, I give it, or direct them to our website. Check your provider's website for a "quick config sheet" or the like. Valjean On Wed, 19 Apr 2000, Pittman, Merle wrote: Exactly! The fact that it is linux has nothing to do with it. They are still responsible to give you the information. With my cable provider I have to get the information to set up windows as well, and they are very willing to give you the info. They do not support linux but still give you the info and it is up to you to get it working. How can Windows set it up automatically?? Sure it can recognize the IP assigned if your ISP uses Dynamic IP addressing, but how do you configure DNS and your email servers?? -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem Not possible, as long as I want to stay on a cable modem. And that is a definite must. I know it kinda pissed me off but her argument was that they don't support Linuxwhat does that have to do with anything. - Original Message - From: "Pittman, Merle" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 2:49 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem They won't give you any address info?? I'd suggest switching providers if that's possible. -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:00 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook
Re: [[newbie] cable modem]
use "ipconfig /all" Well that would work in win98, but I'm running win2k pro. and winipcfg doesn't work..
RE: [[newbie] cable modem]
Finally, a question I can answer... (Feeling really green and understanding about half of what is posted.) Win2K type: "ipconfig" (for the short version) or "ipconfig /all" for the long. "ipconfig /?" gives all the possible uses. Jon Fry [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Jacob Aaron Holbrook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 4:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [[newbie] cable modem] Well that would work in win98, but I'm running win2k pro. and winipcfg doesn't work.. - Original Message - From: "Jaguar" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2000 3:09 PM Subject: Re: [[newbie] cable modem] In Windows...click the START button, choose RUN, type in "winipcfg" -- without quotes...choose MORE INFO, and there are all your IP/DNS/etc there...write them down, then in Linux setup NIC/DHCP (not sure myself as my cable IP is static, and I get by without using DHCP), read the HOWTO's, and get more confused...then ask for additional help in here...:) HTH Jaguar "Jacob Aaron Holbrook" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - Attachment: MIME Type: multipart/alternative - I am hooked up through a cable modem through my local provider. Windows detects this and sets it up by itself and this is what the provider supports. Is there a way to have Linux do the same because they won't give me any information such as host address, ip address ect. because they don't support Linux. Thanks, Jacob Holbrook The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
Re: [newbie] cable modem
I use Linux with a cable modem on RoadRunner, and it works great. Why don't you try this: Run LinuxConf. Go to Networking, then to basic host info. Then select the tab for your network card (eth0). Click on the optin for DHCP. Back out of LinuxConf, activating your changes. You may have to reboot, I don't know. That's ALL I have to do to make RoadRunner work with Linux. Maybe it will work for you. It's worth a try. Good Luck! Jacob Aaron Holbrook wrote: well I just called them again to try and get the information. They said that they cannot give it out because it changes all the time and they cannot assign a "static address" to me. I ran netcfg and set my eth0 to active, saved, closed the window and tried to ping. It didn't work so i went back into netcfg and my eth0 was inactive again.
RE: [newbie] cable modem troubles..
I found it in the windows registry under the program that causes the cable modem to dial... Anyone have any clues for how to get the modem to dial in linux... It is a hybrid model N-202XS cable modem with telco return. The connection configuration (at least I think thats what it is) is listed below. The modem has the phone number to dial programmed into itself. The program in windows to make it dial is called CCMInfo Thanks, Rich Foreman -Original Message- From: Michael R. Batchelor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:39 AM To: Rich Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Where did you find it? It's obviously a chat script to make something happen. Somehow we've gotten out of the list into private mail. Format all of this into a message to repost to the list. It's better to give more details than not enough. I'm not really familiar with this, but someone else might be. Michael -Original Message- From: Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael R. Batchelor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 11:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] running windows in linux Hi, You are correct in that the cable modem is plugged in through a patch cable and the phone line plugs into the cable modem. I dug around and found the following. Is this what makes it dial?? If so, how would I do it with linux? NAME: PAP ISP ppp sl0 pap user richfore venture control down wait 1000 speed 38400 control up wait 800 send "atdtMODEMNUM\r" wait 45000 "CONNECT" hybkeyexch 166.117.87.1 0 Thanks, Rich Foreman -Original Message- From: Michael R. Batchelor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:32 PM To: Rich Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Plunder around in the windows configuration and see if you can determine how windows spawns the dialing. Unless the number is hardcoded into the modem then there must be something to offer a clue how it works. Windows isn't magic or anything. My assumption, from what you've said, is that windows connects to the cable modem with an Ethernet patch cord and no serial port, then the phone line plugs directly into the cable modem. Is this correct? MB
Re: [RE: [newbie] cable modem troubles..]
I think the last problem to overcome is if the modem is a Winmodem? You should determine if your modem is a hardware modem, or one that is supported by Linux. HTH Jaguar "Rich" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I found it in the windows registry under the program that causes the cable modem to dial... Anyone have any clues for how to get the modem to dial in linux... It is a hybrid model N-202XS cable modem with telco return. The connection configuration (at least I think thats what it is) is listed below. The modem has the phone number to dial programmed into itself. The program in windows to make it dial is called CCMInfo Thanks, Rich Foreman -Original Message- From: Michael R. Batchelor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2000 4:39 AM To: Rich Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Where did you find it? It's obviously a chat script to make something happen. Somehow we've gotten out of the list into private mail. Format all of this into a message to repost to the list. It's better to give more details than not enough. I'm not really familiar with this, but someone else might be. Michael -Original Message- From: Rich [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Michael R. Batchelor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sunday, April 16, 2000 11:04 PM Subject: RE: [newbie] running windows in linux Hi, You are correct in that the cable modem is plugged in through a patch cable and the phone line plugs into the cable modem. I dug around and found the following. Is this what makes it dial?? If so, how would I do it with linux? NAME: PAP ISP ppp sl0 pap user richfore venture control down wait 1000 speed 38400 control up wait 800 send "atdtMODEMNUM\r" wait 45000 "CONNECT" hybkeyexch 166.117.87.1 0 Thanks, Rich Foreman -Original Message- From: Michael R. Batchelor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 16, 2000 9:32 PM To: Rich Subject: Re: [newbie] running windows in linux Plunder around in the windows configuration and see if you can determine how windows spawns the dialing. Unless the number is hardcoded into the modem then there must be something to offer a clue how it works. Windows isn't magic or anything. My assumption, from what you've said, is that windows connects to the cable modem with an Ethernet patch cord and no serial port, then the phone line plugs directly into the cable modem. Is this correct? MB The Dogma chased the Stigma, and was hit by the Karma. Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
RE: [newbie] cable modem
Are you sure you even need the proxy server, I doubt it for roadrunner. If you do, in netscape go to "edit preferences advanced proxy ". All the other info you have to get from your isp, just call them up and ask for it. -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Hi there doing a upgrade I got rr to work but I don't know if all my TCP/IP settings are right and I don't know where to find them. Also in w98 using IE I run rr though a porxy server is there any way to set it up in communicator I've never used Netscape before. BTW if I'm not logged in to the network how can I be on it? I haven't set up my user name or password for rr and don't know where to do it. Cory -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Same old story from the tech guys, that is their excuss for "they have no idea what they are doing". Do you have linux installed already?? If you get linux installed and your network card setup properly the rest is cake. You need to find you if you are using static IP addressing or DHCP, find this out from tech support if you don't know. Get the info for gateway, DNS, your IP (if it is static), smtp mail server, pop mail server, etc. Ready to start when you are :) -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:[newbie] cable modem Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory
Re: [newbie] cable modem
The Roadrunner service that I am using (midsouth.rr.com) does not require me to log-in except to check e-mail. The way it works is it verifies me by the Mac address of the ethernet card that they supplied me. It is all done via DHCP. You don't need to run a proxy server which in Linux is IP masquerade unless you are trying to connect two or more PC's to the internet. Here is a link that will tell you more than you want to know about setting up a cable modem and firewalls and IP Masquerading, etc. It also has a section on Roadrunner setup for Linux. Here is the site: www.cablemodeminfo.com . ---Mark Irving--- - Original Message - From: Pittman, Merle [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 6:49 AM Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Are you sure you even need the proxy server, I doubt it for roadrunner. If you do, in netscape go to "edit preferences advanced proxy ". All the other info you have to get from your isp, just call them up and ask for it. -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 12:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Hi there doing a upgrade I got rr to work but I don't know if all my TCP/IP settings are right and I don't know where to find them. Also in w98 using IE I run rr though a porxy server is there any way to set it up in communicator I've never used Netscape before. BTW if I'm not logged in to the network how can I be on it? I haven't set up my user name or password for rr and don't know where to do it. Cory -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [newbie] cable modem Same old story from the tech guys, that is their excuss for "they have no idea what they are doing". Do you have linux installed already?? If you get linux installed and your network card setup properly the rest is cake. You need to find you if you are using static IP addressing or DHCP, find this out from tech support if you don't know. Get the info for gateway, DNS, your IP (if it is static), smtp mail server, pop mail server, etc. Ready to start when you are :) -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory
Re: [[newbie] Cable modem help]
Wow Jon...a ton of great info...thx.:) Jaguar Jon Hunter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The "I wanna get my cable modem working" Howto Your cable modem works in Windoze, but not in Linux? Boot into Windows and open your email or web browser and make SURE it is working. --- Win98/Win98se/Winnt/Win2k Users (Win95 see bottom) Start,run,command.com Command window opens, type into window ipconfig /all (If you do ipconfig /all \settings.txt you can open/print the file made or open it in linux to get and keep your settings handy) And something like this will appear: Windows 98 IP Configuration Host Name . . . . . . . . . : [EMAIL PROTECTED] DNS Servers . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.10 192.168.0.23 192.168.0.1 Node Type . . . . . . . . . : Broadcast NetBIOS Scope ID. . . . . . : IP Routing Enabled. . . . . : No WINS Proxy Enabled. . . . . : No NetBIOS Resolution Uses DNS : Yes 0 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : PPP Adapter. Physical Address. . . . . . : 44-45-53-54-00-00 DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : Yes IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 0.0.0.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : DHCP Server . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.255 Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : Lease Expires . . . . . . . : 1 Ethernet adapter : Description . . . . . . . . : Novell 2000 Adapter. Physical Address. . . . . . : 00-40-05-30-26-ED DHCP Enabled. . . . . . . . : No IP Address. . . . . . . . . : 192.168.0.224 Subnet Mask . . . . . . . . : 255.255.255.0 Default Gateway . . . . . . : 192.168.0.1 Primary WINS Server . . . . : Secondary WINS Server . . . : Lease Obtained. . . . . . . : Lease Expires . . . . . . . : - Take a look at your Adapter (In my case Novell 2000 Adapter). You are interested in IP Address, Subnet Mask, Default Gateway, DHCP Enabled (yes or no), DNS Servers (at the top). Okay, now open your browser and look for proxy info, if you find any copy it down. (Netscape is under edit, preferences,advanced,proxies, Manual proxy configuration (on mine)) (In Internet Exploder I will not even try to suggest where it might be, they change location like I change my sox) Open your email client now and look for name of mail server (Something like mail.home.net) Open a command window again and ping the name they give, write the name and number down! example: ping mail reply from 192.168.0.50 ping news reply from 192.168.0.51 If your mail server is named mail and not mail.something.somethingelse then your provider has an ALIAS on his DNS server and you either must use his DNS numbers or manually put in the ip number for "mail" yourself. I suggest you use his DNS numbers because they may change the numbers for the alias "mail" and then your mail will stop working. Reasons they might have to change number? Server crash, load balancing, just because they can... Same kinda thing goes for news. Remember, if this alias exists it is not a real address. If you go to another machine and try to get your mail you will have to put the numbers in manually. Ok, now that you have all this info boot up linux and put all those settings into linuxconf. If DHCP Enabled said yes then use it in linuxconf, probably not a good idea to static your address if under Windoze it was dynamic. After close of linuxconf you should be able to ping your mail and news servers by name. If not, try by number. If you can ping by number but not by name then go back into linuxconf and fix the DNS entries. If you can't by number either then ping your "Default Gateway", Still no joy? Do ifconfig and check numbers for card. Open up netscape and input proxy server settings if any. If you are going to use Netscape for mail and news you can set up the servers now. If you want you can edit /etc/hosts to make your own alias to mail and news. 192.168.0.50mailmail.home.net 192.168.0.51newsnews.home.net Since Netscape will not let you remove the default of "news" you might as well use it for your news servers name. Hopefully this got it for you. You now know more then many 1st tier Tech Support people. (The ones YOU get to talk to) Usually He/She has a database of common problems dealing with M$ Windoze and very little knowledge of his/her own to work with. If they are asked a question not in the database they might
RE: [newbie] cable modem
Hi there doing a upgrade I got rr to work but I don't know if all my TCP/IP settings are right and I don't know where to find them. Also in w98 using IE I run rr though a porxy server is there any way to set it up in communicator I've never used Netscape before. BTW if I'm not logged in to the network how can I be on it? I haven't set up my user name or password for rr and don't know where to do it. Cory -Original Message- From: Pittman, Merle [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 9:06 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject:RE: [newbie] cable modem Same old story from the tech guys, that is their excuss for "they have no idea what they are doing". Do you have linux installed already?? If you get linux installed and your network card setup properly the rest is cake. You need to find you if you are using static IP addressing or DHCP, find this out from tech support if you don't know. Get the info for gateway, DNS, your IP (if it is static), smtp mail server, pop mail server, etc. Ready to start when you are :) -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory
RE: [newbie] cable modem
Same old story from the tech guys, that is their excuss for "they have no idea what they are doing". Do you have linux installed already?? If you get linux installed and your network card setup properly the rest is cake. You need to find you if you are using static IP addressing or DHCP, find this out from tech support if you don't know. Get the info for gateway, DNS, your IP (if it is static), smtp mail server, pop mail server, etc. Ready to start when you are :) -Original Message- From: Cory Hirano [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 3:34 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory
Re: [newbie] cable modem
At 02:06 PM 3/16/00 -0500, you wrote: Hello there I have Road Runner cable modem service and I was wondering if anyone knows how to set it up so I can get on to the internet with linux . I tried tech support but they said that they only support win/mac and can't help with any other OS. Cory I installed Linux Mandrake 7.0 on a friend's machine that has Road Runner. All I had to do during the installation (I took the expert mode, workstation, I believe) was to tell it that I was using a LAN instead of a dial-up modem. It detected his card and configured it automatically. I brought up the KFM and told it to look for http://www.cnn.com, and up it came. Larry Varney Cold Spring, KY http://w3.one.net/~lvarney
Re: [newbie] Cable Modem
Title: Cable Modem - Original Message - From: Michael D. Seymour To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Sent: Monday, February 14, 2000 9:09 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable Modem I need some help getting my LM 7.0 machine to connect to the internet using a cable modem. My ISP (Time Warner) uses DHCP. I currently have a second PC that uses the connection that runs win98. In an ideal situation I would like to network the 2 PC's via a hub so they could share the cable connection to the internet. For now though I would just be happy to get the Mandrake PC to connect. Thanks in advance, Michael Seymour No problem. If you are using ics program in windows98 which acts as an router use static ip on windows machine 192.168.0.1. Your linux box default gateway should be the same as windows machine. I have similar set up on my 5 workstation network.
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
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
Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at
http://webmail.netscape.com.
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Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
Trub wrote: Questions: Every time I set up Mandrake "serverl" if I have say a separate partition of say 7g mandrake only reports it as 1/2 its actual size? Is mandrake doing software raid by default or something? And if so how can I turn it OFF? If its a raid thing, you may not be able to turn it off without going to a re-install and not turning it on in the first place. Don't know if Mandrake defaults to a raid setup with the normal install. I always use the custom install. I feel the custom install gives me more control. Frank Kamp
Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
I would Like to use it for just one computer. Just mine. How could I do that? I have a Linksys EtherPCI II Lan card. - Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 2:04 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem! What are you trying to accomplish with the cable modem? Do you simply want asingle computer connected to it, or do you want to use it as a gateway formultiple computers?Bryan"David" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/20/2000 12:54:57 PMPlease respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]cc: (bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings)Subject: [newbie] Cable modem!Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cablemodem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I havea 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can'tinstall LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO?Thanks people!Dave
Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
Hi David, for starters (i use the @home service personally) with a RealTek8029 chipset ne2000 PCI compatible.you need to setup your network as DHCP and the Server name must match what you would have had in windows as your computer name on the identification tabbut if you leave a list of what you have already done, perhaps i can help (by the way if your card is a ne200 compatible PCI card, the module you need to load is ne2k-pci) Tom Kwasnik David wrote: Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cable modem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I have a 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can't install LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO? Thanks people! Dave
Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
Hi Thomas, This thing is that I don't know nothing about linux. Like the commands or installing software. But the thing I would like to know is HOW to install these...or how to get the NIC to work so I can surf on the net with Linux. Thanks for the help! Dave - Original Message - From: "Thomas J. Kwasnik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 20, 2000 7:35 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem! Hi David, for starters (i use the @home service personally) with a RealTek8029 chipset ne2000 PCI compatible.you need to setup your network as DHCP and the Server name must match what you would have had in windows as your computer name on the identification tabbut if you leave a list of what you have already done, perhaps i can help (by the way if your card is a ne200 compatible PCI card, the module you need to load is ne2k-pci) Tom Kwasnik David wrote: Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cable modem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I have a 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can't install LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO? Thanks people! Dave
Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
1.Depend on your HDD manufacturer, you should download something similar to 'Ontrack Disk Manager' and install them onto your HDD - Original Message - From: David To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 21, 2000 12:54 AM Subject: [newbie] Cable modem! Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cable modem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I have a 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can't install LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO? Thanks people! Dave
Re: [newbie] Cable modem!
What are you trying to accomplish with the cable modem? Do you simply want a single computer connected to it, or do you want to use it as a gateway for multiple computers? Bryan "David" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 01/20/2000 12:54:57 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: [newbie] Cable modem! Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cable modem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I have a 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can't install LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO? Thanks people! Dave Hi, I'm a pure newbie at this and would like to know if how could I get my cable modem to work. I really need some step by step instructions. And since I have a 20 gig hd. It tells me that I have more then 1024 cylinders and I can't install LILO. Is there a way to get 1024 cylinders so I can install LILO? Thanks people! Dave
Re: [newbie] cable modem
From: Ronald A. Yacketta Setting up a cable modem is pretty straight forward, might want to check the list archives. "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/28/99 07:24:55 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of the spectrum. Thanks as always, Ralph
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Let me know if you have any specific questions. Mine was pretty easy to set up. Bryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/29/99 09:27:35 AM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Bryan Moorehead/Link/Allied Holdings) Subject: Re: [newbie] cable modem From: Ronald A. Yacketta Setting up a cable modem is pretty straight forward, might want to check the list archives. "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/28/99 07:24:55 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: [newbie] cable modem Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of the spectrum. Thanks as always, Ralph
Re: [newbie] cable modem
Just posted: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/connect/ccable.html Original Message On 9/28/99, 4:24:55 PM, "Ralph | byte-runner |" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] cable modem: Hey all, I'm getting cable modem sevice hooked up this week. Can someone plz help me with the install in Mandrake. Also I want to set up an ftp server not anon. but with user names and passwords can beroftpd do this? And how hard is it to set up? I'm usaed to warftp and servu on the nt side of the spectrum. Thanks as always, Ralph
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
