On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 06:27:22PM -0800, Jason Victor wrote: > I'm trying to configure my cable modem to work with > Linux. I'm using Optimum Online. I have a couple of > questions. First of all, is my ethernet card working > if i type dmesg and see something about "eth0: Xircom > CardBus." That is the NIC i have. second, i've been > trying to connect with dhcpcd, and can't figure it > out. i set up dhcpcd to work on eth0, and type ifup > eth0, and it says "ignoring unknown interface eth0." > i'm stuck. by the way, it sits at the starting dhcp: > thing for a long time.
Run ifconfig -a to see if eth0 exists or not. If it does, you just need to get the right stuff to use it. If it doesn't, then you need to config your pcmcia and modules stuff to set it up. You might want to try doing things by hand, i.e. running pump -i eth0 (dhcpcd is obsolete; It's been removed from Debian because it is irreparably full of bugs and security holes. It still works, though, and it has a similar command line option. Note that pump will log everything it does to syslog. Take a look if anything goes wrong.) You say that dhcpcd hangs for a long time. Try running tcpdump while you run dhcpcd. (This may not work too well, since the interface will be down when you start, unless you assign a bogus address to it. Also, dhcpcd will take down the interface tcpdump is sniffing on...) See if you're getting any response. If pump (or dhcpcd) works, then your problem is in configuring the high level tools like ifup. I personally never bother with them on my desktop machines, and rewrite /etc/init.d/networking to run ifconfig, route, and ipchains the way I like. (I haven't finished hacking the pcnet-cs driver to support my Surecom EP-427X for my laptop :(. However, if you just want something simple that works, stick with ifup I guess. > i am using storm linux (basically debian 2.2) is there > any way to use the storm administration system to do > this? there is an option to set up eth0 with dhcp. i > need 2 give it a hostname... where do i get that? DHCP can pass a hostname to the DHCP server. [EMAIL PROTECTED] in Ontario uses this: they give you a host name to use when you sign up, and you have to supply that for their DHCP server to answer. Other providers, like Eastlink in Nova Scotia, don't require this, and just check the ethernet MAC address. -- #define X(x,y) x##y Peter Cordes ; e-mail: X([EMAIL PROTECTED] , ns.ca) "The gods confound the man who first found out how to distinguish the hours! Confound him, too, who in this place set up a sundial, to cut and hack my day so wretchedly into small pieces!" -- Plautus, 200 BCE
