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
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
From: Ronald A. Yacketta resolv.conf file search rochester.rr.com rr.com nameserver 24.93.1.254 nameserver 24.93.1.126 /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0DEVICE="eth0" BOOTPROTO="dhcp" ONBOOT="yes" IPADDR="" NETMASK="" IPXNETNUM_802_2="" IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no" IPXACTIVE_802_2="no" IPXNETNUM_802_3="" IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no" IPXACTIVE_802_3="no" IPXNETNUM_ETHERII="" IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no" IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no" IPXNETNUM_SNAP="" IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no" IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no" "Rendus Maiman" [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 09/16/99 12:41:02 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Ronald A. Yacketta/958157/EKC) Subject: 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
Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0
The latest version of pump is also supposed to support the -h parameter. As usual the man page has no concrete examples and I haven't been able to figure it out. I used the dhcpcd settings (mods) found here, http://members.home.net/jasonbrossa/Linux/, for a while but I have settled for the permanent settings available here: https://ms2.home.net/NetStatus/index.htm?viewonly=true. Wayne Boaz, Network Analyst O- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -O http://members.home.net/wayneboaz "Consider adoption another option." "The avalanche has already started... it's too late for the pebbles to vote." - Kosh - Original Message - From: Daniel Knapp [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 9:24 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Cable modem setup in Linux-Mandrake 6.0 I am not sure how your setup works, but for Rogers@home everyone is assigned a client id and in order to setup the network you need to run dhcpcd -h (put client id here). That is, you need to specify your computer name. daniel Rendus Maiman 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" 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
