Assuming you have no other ethernet cards installed in your computer, and
the (cable modem?) (DSL thingy?) (Satellite dish?) connects to your
network card, try the following:
dhcpcd eth0
That runs "DHCP Client Daemon" and tells it to try connecting to a DHCP
server (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol; what many ISPs use to assign
semi-random, arbitrary IPs to arbitrary computers) through the 0th
(1st) ethernet card.
If you have other ethernet cards, pass the one connected to
SprintHighSpeedSomething to dhcpcd; e.g., "dhcpcd eth1".
This will work if (and only if) your ISP uses DHCP to set up its
hosts. The basic question to find this out is, Did the Sprint people
want to install any Windows software? If they did install some, then it
might be PPPoE (Point-to-Point Protocol (what most phone-line ISPs
use) over Ethernet).
Anyway, try DHCP. It might work, and if not, no harm done.
Best of luck.
-- Asheesh Laroia.
--
Seems a computer engineer, a systems analyst, and a programmer were
driving down a mountain when the brakes gave out. They screamed down the
mountain, gaining speed, but finally managed to grind to a halt, more by
luck than anything else, just inches from a thousand foot drop to jagged
rocks. They all got out of the car:
The computer engineer said, "I think I can fix it."
The systems analyst said, "No, no, I think we should take it
into town and have a specialist look at it."
The programmer said, "OK, but first I think we should get back
in and see if it does it again."
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