Oops,
I'm too tired to be doing this I guess.. :)
change the /sbin/ifup $DEVICE stuff in step 2 with /sbin/dhcpcd
sorry.
Francis
On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Francis J.Bruening wrote:
> I just set up my @home service (Oregon) on a new install of MD7.0.
>
> I wanted to use the DHCP server as opposed to setting my networking info
> statically. @Home is a bit odd, in that their DHCP server requires an
> identifier from the client request in order to get a response.
>
> 1) backup /sbin/ifup (I used {fn.orig} for all files I'm about to tweak
> 2) find the line in /sbin/ifup which has
>
> if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -h $HOSTNAME...
>
> and replace with
>
> if /sbin/ifup $DEVICE -I "c583xxx-a" ...
>
> with your "account id" from @home. Note that is a capital 'i'.
>
> Save this file, restart your network (init 3), or reboot if
> you don't know how to restart services, and you should be
> all set.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2036, you wrote:
> > First of all...read the HOWTO on NIC's and there is also one on Cable
> > Modems....once your NIC is correctly setup, all I had to do was choose the
> > INSTALL NIC in initial startup after INSATLLING, put in the IP (IP, DNS,
> > Gateway) info, including the account NAME, and presto...it worked...mine for
> > whatever reason is NOT using DHCP, and I am sending this from MDK now.
> > HTH
> > Jaguar
> >
> > "J Winkle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > I am using a cable modem (Comcast @Home in NJ) to connect to the
> > > internet and can not, for the life of me, figure out how to configure it
> > > (correctly) to actually get on the internet. I have found most(?) places
> > > that would configure it. But am not sure of the translation between Win95
> > > and Linux for DNS Server, Work Group, Search Order, etc ..... I have looked
> > > for How-To's on the subject but none really get as specific as I need (read
> > > extreme newbie). Any help would be MOST appreciated.
> > >
> > > Jim
> >
> >
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