Re: [newbie] installing cable modem

[Steven Nelson]

Hi, the modem works fine. There are different reasons why I prefer to use 
the terminal instead of drakconnect or a program similiar to it. There are 
programs that I would use for configuring a LAN connection, though. Thanks 
for the help.
                                                                            
              From,
                                                                            
                  Steven


From: "Ronald J. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] installing cable modem
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:08:12 -0500
On Friday 26 December 2003 03:56 pm, Steven Nelson wrote:
-> Trying to install a cable modem and do not know how. The LAN connection 
is
-> Integrated Intel Pro/1000 CT Desktop Connection and is on the 
motherboard.
-> Downloaded the driver for the LAN connection from support.intel.com, the
-> driver is for Linux. Installed it, so it should be completely installed.
-> Need to know how to configure the LAN connection so the computer will
-> connect to the internet. I do not want to use the Mandrake Control 
Center.
 I -> would like to configure the LAN connection from the terminal. Will
 somebody -> tell me exactly what to type in the terminal to setup the LAN
 connection? ->

First off, you need to make sure your eth0 stuff is working okay. When you
run:
ifconfig

what does it show?

also, you'll need to make sure some software is installed:

[EMAIL PROTECTED] darklord]# rpm -qa | grep dhcp
dhcp-client-3.0-1.rc12.2mdk
dhcp-common-3.0-1.rc12.2mdk
Now here, after installing the cable-modem, all I had to do was one of the
following:
service network restart
ifup eth0 (you might have to do "ifdown eth0" first)
I think thats about all I had to do. Also, what provider are you using? 
Some
are rather more Linux friendly than others. There is a list of providers 
and
users experiences with them:

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/

BTW, why not use the GUI? Drakconnect works great, out of the box, most of 
the
time...YMMV...

HTHs!

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