Ok, Let me try and shed some light on this. First there are known problems
with Win NT dhcp, i've never bothered to ask much about the head end on
road runner, so can't rule this out. You will need to locate the linux
rrlogin, hopefully someone has already customised it for your area (I
haven't fiddled with it for a few months maybe it's not a compiletime
option only anymore) They tend to get upset and cut you off when you
refuse to run the rr program (even on windows). You should beable to
obtain a dhcp lease in windows use winipcfg to findout ip gw dns and all
that fun stuff, now reset the machine so it doesn't release its lease
(windows does release this if you do shutdown doesn't it?) now setup your
linux cfg with the ip info you retrieved and it should function (winipcfg
should be able to tell you when the lease expires..)
On Mon, 12 Jul 1999, Art Rowe wrote:
> I dual boot with Win98 and Linux. I have installed Caldera 1.3, Redhat 5.1
> and 6, and Mandrake 6 without any trouble getting my cable modem to work
> with Linux. I just filled in the data I got in the cable printout given me
> when I started off. I think I just took the first choice in one of the
> menues, something like static IP? static DNS rather than the third option
> which was DHCP (which Rogers wave uses, I think).
>
> I don't know the technical side, just that it has worked for me. My onbly
> trouble is getting KDE mail clients to work. I can get e-mail with Netscape
> in Linux.
>
> Art
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Matt Stegman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Linux Newbie List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, July 12, 1999 8:22 AM
> Subject: [newbie] DHCP and RoadRunner
>
>
> > Our community recently got cable modem access, via RoadRunner services.
> My
> > family signed up right away, and we now have cable modem access to the
> > Internet (everybody applaud)! However, I now have a problem.
> >
> > My system is dual-boot, and I've set the Windows side up no problem. All
> I
> > had to do was tell it to use DHCP ("Obtain an IP address automatically"),
> > and set the IRQ and IO port settings for my ISA NE2000 network card, and
> all
> > was well. Linux, on the other hand...
> >
> > Up 'till now, I've used Linux on a network with no problem. This was with
> a
> > static IP, user-specified gateway, DNS, etc.; now that I think of it, I
> was
> > using Festen, though. When I installed Venus, I was (temporarily) off the
> > network. Now I'm back, and with problems. My IRQ and IO settings are
> good
> > (in linuxconf), and I tell it to use DHCP, and leave all the other info
> > blank (no DNS, gateway, etc). Then, after loading the DHCP module (I
> think,
> > is this what's happening?) , Linux comes back after timing out and says it
> > couldn't get an address from the DHCP server.
> >
> > Given that Windows doesn't need to use the RoadRunner setup, Linux
> shouldn't
> > have to, either (right?). Is there something I'm missing, i.e. that
> Windows
> > takes care of behind the scenes, but Linux doesn't? I'd rather not have
> to
> > rely on Windows for internet access...
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Matt Stegman
> > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
>
