According to Jeff Westhead: While burning my CPU.
>
> I happen to live in the same city as the original poster. Rogers is a television
> cable company that offers cable Internet access. This guy does not want to allow
> "Roger" to login to his Linux box, he wants to know how to connect his Linux box
> to the Internet via the cable modem and ethernet hookup provided by Rogers Cable.
> :)
Ah!, well surly a better bet would be to "ask Roger"!.
Ifconfig and route should get some results. I.m quite sure someone else will
have more experiance in this field than i, sorry for misunderstanding what
he wanted.
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> Richard Adams wrote:
>
> > According to Sean Conway: While burning my CPU.
> > >
> > > I am trying to set up Rogers@Home on a Linux box at my house. I think that I
> > > have followed the instructions correctly, but something must be messed up as
> > > it isn't working.
> > >
> > > Before I started messing with /etc files, ifconfig gave me info on eth0 and
> > > my network info. Now, it only gives me info on my network. here is the info
> >
> > If i understand your question correctly, as i see it you want to give Rogers
> > permission to login to your system be it from the console or via a remote
> > connection.
> > Realy all you needed to do was use the 'adduser' program to create an account
> > called Rogers.
> >
> > Possably you might need to create an alias for Rogers in /etc/aliases
> > for sendmail, try it without first.
> >
> > Rogers: <machines_hostname>
> >
> > > I get:
> > >
> > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback
> > > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Bcast: 127.255.255.255 Mask:255.0.0.0
> > > UP BROADCAST LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU: 3584 Metric: 1
> > > RX packets: 45 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0
> > > TX packets: 45 errors: 0 dropped: 0 overruns: 0
> > >
> > > If anyone has had success in getting Rogers@Home setup, I would appreciate
> > > some tips, or if they would reply to my email, then I can send them some
> > > more detailed info on the problem.
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Sean Conway
> > >
> > > P.S. I think that my ethernet card is still working, as it says that it
> > > initialises in dmesg - but it doesn't show up under ifconfig. Why not? Is
> > > there a way for me to get it to show up again? Thanks again.
> > >
> >
> > Yes with 'ifconfig' but i cant tell you in which file the commands are
> > located as you do not say which distribution you are using.
> > In slackware its /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
> >
> > --
> > Regards Richard.
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Regards Richard.
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