Remember, if the problem is the network card not working, you can go and get a 20 dollar realtec card from a computer shop and it will work at 10 or 100 speed in either windows or linux and it will do it in linux with no driver necessary, (linux supports it out of the box, I speak of the rtl8139 cards,,, (look on the actual big chip on the network card, the numbers and brand on that will tell you what the card REALLY is, as opposed to what the box tells you its being sold as.) you may be lucky and find that the card is already supported and you are trying to load a driver that is not necessary. Its really alot easier in linux then you will believe, once you get it going, you'll wonder why you were having problems, ,it only seems hard because you are used to doin it the windows way.... rgds Frank -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of David Rankin Sent: Wednesday, 15 August 2001 11:11 AM To: Guy R Gauthier Cc: mandrake Subject: Re: [expert] Cable modem Guy R Gauthier wrote: > About a month ago, I subscribed to cable Internet access. It was not a > problem getting it going in Windows. Now, however, I'm trying to get it > going in Linux without any success. The disk that came with the ethernet > card that came with the modem does have drivers for Linux. I wasn't able > to install it though, and when I called the support line for the card, > they told me they don't support Linux. I had tried to install following > the directions in the drivers section. I wasn't able to do it. > > So now I'd like to ask anyone who knows Linux if they would help me. If > need be, I can send the complete instructions on how to install it. To > me, it doesn't seem to correlate. If anyone can help me, I'd be very > grateful. Failing that, I'll probably have to stick with Windows. And > that thought makes me shudder. So I'm looking forward to any help I can > get. > > TIA > > Guy First, what ethernet card is it? Generally, you are provided with some linux driver (module file) say "drivername.o" To have Linux recognize the card is a matter of installing the module. (see man insmod and modprobe) After you can talk to your ethernet card, getting the cable modem working is simply a matter of configuring your ethernet interface (eth0 or eth1) to handle the IP from your cable ISP. linuxconf can automate the process of setting up eth0 or eth1 (your 1st and 2nd ethernet cards) to handle a dynamic IP assigned from your ISP via DHCP or set eth0 to handle a fixed IP assigned to you. -- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. ASEL -- Instrument Nacogdoches, Texas N31 34.7 W094 42.6 355 MSL
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