Re: Cabel modem installation.

[David Harel]

Thanks everyone who replied, (it always gets me by a surprise that so many people are kind enough to spend their time and answer)

OK, things are a little more difficult.

To begin, with I failed to describe my machine. It is an HP omnibook laptop. It has network card built into it and a single USB port to which I hooked a USB HUB. I am running Linux RH 8.0.
Since I jammed the linux installation I reinstalled everything from scratch (while the cable modem is connected to the USB via the HUB).
In the installation process I was prompted for eth0 only. I gave it IP address 10.0.0.1

It took me a while to figure out that after boot, eth0 is the USB cable modem. I was not able to reference eth1 at all.

What I do to make it work is:

1. Stop network operations by the command:  /etc/init.d/network stop
2. Disconnect the cable modem from  the USB hub.
3. Start eth0 manually by the command:  ifconfig eth0 10.0.0.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 up
4. Reconnect the cable modem to the USB hub.
5. I fiddle a little with the start/stop of /etc/init.d/network and vualla. eth0 is the network card and eth1 is the usb cable modem.

I would like it to go smoothly on boot time without fiddling that much. Also I would like to figure out which eth? is to which physical hardware thing.
I tried to use modprobe -c and got that eth0 is an alias to something.

below are the files ifcfg-eth[01]
eth0:

DEVICE=eth0
IPADDR=10.0.0.1
NETMASK=255.255.255.0
NETWORK=10.0.0.0
ONBOOT=yes
NAME=eth0

eth1:

DEVICE=eth1
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes

Alex Chudnovsky wrote:

On Thursday 23 January 2003 14:36, David Harel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am looking for instructions of how to use the cable modem I received
> (Thomson-MATAV) using it's USB port.
> As far as I remember the anaconda(?) found the modem and added it's
> drivers but I do not know how to access it.
Cable modems usually emulate Ethernet adapters. Check your network interfaces
- the modem should be eth*, e.g eth0 in case you have no other NICs in your
computer, otherwise it depends on driver loading order. Offtopic : this
"driver loading order" makes me pretty sick :-( In case of USB, you never
know, which storage device will get sda and which sdb, which printer would be
lp0 and which lp1, whether the cable modem will get eth0 or eth1...
> Does it matter that it is connected via a USB multiplexer?
Do you mean USB hub?Yes and no. As long as the USB hub is supported, there
should be no problem for the system to see the modem. Although, if you have
USB 1.1, there may be bandwidth conflicts between the modem and other devices
on the same root hub, as the modem will use maximum bandwidth. Nothing
serious, but your download/upload rate may go down as you use another
full-bandwidth device on the same root hub - scanner or printer, for example.
>
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> David Harel,
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