At 09:10 30/12/2002, Adam Bogacki sent this up the stick:
Seems strange that your cable provider would assign you an address in the 192.168- range. Does Paradise cable use DHCP to assign the address? If so, try making sure that either pump or dhcpd are installed, and comment out all the existing eth0 stuff and put the following into /etc/network/interfaces:Tux:/home/adam# cat /etc/resolv.conf search paradise.net.nz nameserver 203.96.152.4 nameserver 203.96.152.12Tux:/home/adam# /etc/network/interfaces # /etc/network/interfaces --configuration file for if up(8) if down(8) # the loopback interface auto lo iface lo inet loopback # The first network card ... during Deb install #(network, broadcast & gateway are optional) auto eth0 iface eth0 inet static adress 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 network 192.168.1.0 broadcast 192.168.1.255
auto eth0
iface eth0 dhcp
Do /etc/init.d/network restart and see if everything works.
Failing the above, I had a look at the web page to see what support they offrered, and it seems as though Paradise cable is provided by TelstraClear (formerly Saturn). There is a Cable-modem HOWTO at http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html. Have a look at the entry there for Saturn.
Cheers,
Rob
-----Original Message----- From: David Kempe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, 30 December 2002 9:39 AM To: Adam Bogacki Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable Adam, you really have to get back to basics. forget linuxconf, its not needed. please tell us the output of these commands and we can get the details of exactly what is wrong. cat /etc/resolv.conf cat /etc/network/interfaces ifconfig if your resolv.conf looks like what you typed below then DNS is broken. take out the search parameter for now, just have two lines that read nameserver x.x.x.x and nameserver x.x.x.x I have never needed to touch /etc/networks - i think it is either redundant or built from /etc/network/interfaces hope that helps, dave ----- Original Message ----- From: Adam Bogacki To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 30, 2002 7:12 AM Subject: [SLUG] Problems configuring woody for cable Hi, I'm running Woody testing/unstable in a dual boot-system and have recently had 512Bd cable installed. The XP drive is fine but I can't seem to get it going with Woody. I apt-get installed linuxconf via ppp, read through the help files as suggested, and added in all known values for DNS Servers, IP (Static), Gateway, and SubNet mask. I did not see anywhere to include network settings for pop3 or smtp (presumably to go in ./muttrc and Mozilla). I keep getting the message "Can't find package 'pythonmod' " although via 'apt-get update', 'apt-get upgrade' and 'apt-get -u dist-upgrade || apt-get -f install' I found that 'pythonmod' had indeed been installed. 'netconf -status' gives me 'module pythonmod does not exist' ? Service samba is not running Executing: /etc/rc2.d/S20samba start' My /etc/resolv.conf is 'search paradise.net.nz nameserver 203.96.152.4 203.96.152.12' my /etc/networks is "localnet 192.168.1.0 eth0_netmask 255.255.255.0" which confuses me - where did that DNS come from ? my IP is 203.79.110.81 Similarly my /etc/hosts had (last time I looked) three different designations for my system (Tux): 127.0.0.1 Localhost 192.168.1.1 Tux 203.79.110.81 Tux loghost . I presume these have been calculated by Linuxconf. I received the linuxconf message "forwarding of IP traffic is not active in the kernel" and trying an apt-get update still gives me "something wicked happened resolving 'mirror.aarnet.edu.au:http' Sorry for the confusion - any solutions ? Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [forwarding] -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
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