If I understand your comments correctly you have a 3 Com modem.
If this is true the first thing I would do would go to the 3 Com Modem help site and do
a full exploration of their documentation and I believe that you will find several
documents on installation, set up, and operation of their modems using Linux.
Hope this helps.
Frank
Richard Adams wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, Preble RyanSrA 31CS/SCBBSS wrote about, network configuration:
> > I was wondering if anybody could provide any assistance on setting
> > up my dual boot machine for the network. I am running Caldera 2.2 with
> > win98 and am unable to get up on the network Caldera wise. I downloaded
> > some docs and faqs but did not solve my problem.
> > Whenever I try to start the dhcp service and obtain an ip address it
> > just tells me unable to contact dhcp server. i have worked with Linux just
> > a little and i am sure it is something in the settings with ethernet
> > addressing under COAS but am not sure.
> > i have a 3COM 3c905b nic that works fine under 98 so I know that is not the
> > problem.
> > If you can help please let me know.
>
> We could help you, but you are not helping us very much with so little
> information abiout what is happening.
>
> The dhcp service will not work unless the card is initialised at bootime or
> you load its driver and configure the card manualy.
>
> What normaly happens at bootime is something like the following, i am
> quoting "slackware" here.
>
> The NIC gets initalised by modprobe the manual command for your NIC is;
>
> modprobe 3c59x
>
> Now one would issue /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
>
> rc.inet1 looks basicly "somethig" like;
>
> IPADDR="127.0.0.1" # REPLACE with YOUR IP address!
> NETMASK="255.255.255.0" # REPLACE with YOUR netmask!
> NETWORK="127.0.0.0" # REPLACE with YOUR network address!
> BROADCAST="" # REPLACE with YOUR broadcast address, if you
> # have one. If not, leave blank and edit below.
> GATEWAY="" # REPLACE with YOUR gateway address!
>
> # To use DHCP instead of a static IP, set this value to "yes":
> DHCP="yes" # Use DHCP ("yes" or "no")
>
> # OK, time to set up the interface:
> if [ "$DHCP" = "yes" ]; then # use DHCP to set everything up:
> echo "Attempting to configure eth0 by contacting a DHCP server..."
> /sbin/dhcpcd
> elif [ ! "$IPADDR" = "127.0.0.1" ]; then # set up IP statically:
> # Set up the ethernet card:
> echo "Configuring eth0 as ${IPADDR}..."
> /sbin/ifconfig eth0 ${IPADDR} broadcast ${BROADCAST} netmask ${NETMASK}
> fi
>
> Now we are going to confuse the issue a little by giving another example,
> one would do at the command line;
>
> modprobe 3c59x
> ifconfig eth 0 0.0.0 up
> dhclient eth0
>
> dhclient will now attempt to get an ip# address An ISP who is listening for
> dchp broadcasts.
>
> If your system refuses to get a ip number from YOUR ISP, then a few
> questions come to mind.
>
> 1) what does 'ifconfig eth0' say just after bootup.???
> 2) what are the messages in /var/log/messages or syslog, i dont know what
> caldera uses for its log files, normaly /etc/syslog.conf will show where
> the messages are sent to.
>
> I have a bootable cdrom here from caldera, i must admit when i installed it
> a while ago it did not detect my NIC which is also a 3c59x (it did not even
> configure my mouse) but thats another story.
>
> Give us some more info to go on, i am sure we can get it going for you,
> in between time i will play with caldera and see what happens, o having
> said that i would have t reinstall it, as i did not like things i saw and
> the way it decided to install itself. It was so slow on the install as
> well, now i know why they put a game of all dam things on the screen while
> its installing.
>
> >
> > Thanks in advanced Ryan
> --
> Regards Richard
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