OK, I finally have time to write this. I installed 7.1 a few months
ago, and I was making a bit of progress as far as learing Linux goes,
but then I switched from 56k to cable modem, and I hit a wall, as I
have no clue of what's necessary to fill in in netconf and what isn't.
So here's what I have, along with the dmesg info and whatever else I
have:
OK, to start with, I'm using Optimum Online, which is a Cablevision
subsidiary,
When I'm booting my computer, and its going through its process where
its initializing things (or whatever) and its showing what its doing
on the left side of the screen while saying OK on the right side (you
know what I mean) it gets to a point where it says:
Bringing up interface eth0 Can't find DHCP client on the left side and
[failed] on the right.
When I bring up a terminal window and type in ifconfig (as SU) it
says:
LO Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask 255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:3924 Metric 1
Rx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 Frame:0
Tx packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
The info I've entered so far in netconf:
Basic Host Info:
Host Name
host name and domain : localhost.localdomain
Adaptor
Config Mode: DHCP
Primary Name and Domain: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Alias: rog@slammingrooves
IP address: 24.188 blah blah blah
Net mask: 255.255.255.192
Net Device: eth0
Kernel Module: 3c59x
I/O port:
IRQ: 5
Name Server Specifications (unfortunatly, I didnt write down the
fields that were in here, but I did fill in the primary and secondary
IPs, and nothing else...does that help?)
Routing and Gateways (Nothing here)
Hostname search path (nothing here)
Network Information System (NIS) (nadie aqui)
IPX interface setup (nada)
PPP/SLIP/PLIP ( nothing)
Im not really sure why I put 5 down for IRQ, and I have no idea what
to put down for I/O port...
the nic card is a 3com 3C900B-TPO
Oh, and whenever I hit quit on netconf, it puts up a box asking if I
want to enact the changes, and blah blah...it also asks if I want to
see what still needs to be done, and when I click that button it says:
Things to do:
Create dir /ver/spool/mqueue
Changing permissions of file /var/spool/mail from 42775 to 40775
Changing permissions of file /usr/bin/sendmail from 100775 to 104775
Changing permissions of file /usr/sbin/ppd from 105775 to 104775
Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/510 network reload
Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/51apmd start
Executing etc/rc.d/rd.d/5510inet restart
The create dir part I can handle, the changing permissions Im
reasonably sure I could figure out, the rest of it, Im a loop thats
been thrown.
Anywho, going by the above information, can someone walk me through
the rest of it? I really want to get back into Linux full time, and
its impossible without being online...I end up in Windows 90% of the
time. As always, please assume I know nothing about Linux...its pretty
much true.
peace,
Rog
http://www.slammingrooves.com
