Hello all
I know this has been discussed and I've followed some of the suggestions
but I'm deep in the woods as to getting My @home in Mountain View Ca to
work at all. Help is really appreciated.
First, the @home tech support people wouldn't talk to me at all concerning
supporting Linux. (I told them they sould be ashamed for not supporting
Linux and their attitude seems to be "tough ..".
I am using Slackware 7.1 under the 2.2.16 kernel. I know my eithernet
card is working as ifconfig -a shows an entry for it.
The entry is:
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:B0:D0:76:AC:96
BROADCAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:100
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xec00
The 3com card appears to be initialize at boottime:
3c59x.c:v0.99H 27May00 Donald Becker
http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/vortex.html
eth0: 3Com 3c905C Tornado at 0xec00, 00:b0:d0:76:ac:96, IRQ 10
8K byte-wide RAM 5:3 Rx:Tx split, autoselect/Autonegotiate interface.
MII transceiver found at address 24, status 782d.
Enabling bus-master transmits and whole-frame receives.
The Cable modem is an RCA model but I don't know the number.
Although I'm blind and can't see the lights on the cable modem, I'm told
they change so I believe the network card is talking to the modem.
The network is working in Windows 98. The fellow who installed the
modem got it up and running without installing any software that I can
tell. It's possible that something is hidden! For information, I've looked in
control panel/networks/tcpip protocols and that is where I found that the
"automatically assign IP address was checked" which leads me to assume
that an IP address is assigned to the cable modem when it logs on. (it
is an rca modem and the docs say it supports Linux.) If I understand
the doc right, the modem is always connected to the @home network (even
when the computer is off) unless the modem is powered off.
Another thing I noticed in Windows is that SNS is disabled. The thing
works magically!
I tried using dhcpcd as suggested and it returned after 30 seconds
without any output but neither route or inconfig show connection to
eth0. Dhcp was installed when I sdt up Slackware but I haven't
configured it (reading the dhcp how-to makes me feel I'm ok there).
Dhcpcd leaves an error in syslog that it timed out waiting for a valid
dhcp server response. Sounds like that's saying there's no dhcp server on the
net.
Also, since I don't know any DNS addresses, I can't make entires in
resolv.conf. I don't think this matters at this point.
The loopbabk device is installed and has it's entry in /etc/hosts and
shows in ifconfig and route.
Likewise, there is no entry in /etc/networks beside localnet.
So if anyone can give me things to try, I'd appreciate.
In regard to it's performance in Windows, I'm a bit disappointed--speeds
seem to average around 35 Kbytes/sec on ftp recieve transfers.
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