Re: [newbie] Cable Modems and NIC cards
Dacia and AzureRose wrote: which brand of cable is it? I have ATT and they do not use DHCP. Its static IP's. Your info should be on the receipt the installation guy gave you. Once again, these directions are (probably) only good for ATT @home service. Hi, I have ATT @home service and the only way I could get it to work was to invoke dhcpcd. Entering in the IP addresses and gateway did not do it for me. I wound up removing all of the information for eth0 and entering "dhcpcd -h myhostname" and it worked beatifully. If you read the cable modem HOWTO I think it is different for different areas of the country. I haven't a clue why that is so. The trick for me was that the @home server needed me to tell it my host name. I could ping their server but couldn't go any farther before doing that. Hugo Aloha, Oregon
Re: [newbie] Cable Modems and NIC cards
which brand of cable is it? I have ATT and they do not use DHCP. Its static IP's. Your info should be on the receipt the installation guy gave you. Once again, these directions are (probably) only good for ATT @home service. go to the network configuration tab in DrakConf Enter your computer name in the Host name section. mine is d642855-a go to the next tab and make sure that your NIC has an appropriate module chosen for it. Enter your IP address and sub net mask. click quit. choose the tab called DNS something or other. enter your 2 DNS addresses in the fields and for the "Search domain" filed enter the .sttln1.home.com part of your computers full (d642855-a.sttln1.home.com) name. click quit and go to gateway. enter your gateway IP address and click quit. it will ask you to apply changes once you try to close the last box. Say ok but it won't work. You have to open linuxconf and restart the network service in there. It should work just fine now. Good luck! Dacia --- "Paul K. Rooker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just installed LM 7.1 and I am trying to get my nic card and cable modem to work. I have searched and tried many of the suggestions for the past two days to no avail. If anyone has configured an ethernet card for a LAN and cable modem PLEASE tell me how to do it. My system recognizes my card but I cannot seem to get the DHCP to work. Your assistance is greatly appreciated. Paul Las Vegas __ Do You Yahoo!? Kick off your party with Yahoo! Invites. http://invites.yahoo.com/
