I'm not too sure why anyone other than me has been having this problem. :)
I know almost zilch about KDE and Mandrake, other than I've been able to
install it successfully time after time. The only thing I did to get my
cable modem to work is make sure the card existed as eth0 and put in my DNS
numbers. I don't think there was anything other than that to do with it,
maybe change the hostmane or something. I don't think I've ever lost
connection, whether it was a USR modem or cable modem. The ony thing I had
a problem with as far as my network card was when the Linksys router I have
didn't want to hand me an IP. I thought the install was borked but it was
just that lousy router. :)
Take Care!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Sridhar Dhanapalan
> Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 2:01 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Roger Sherman
> Subject: Re: [newbie] My continuing cable modem woes...
>
>
> I have the same problem. I finally managed to connect to the
> Internet with my
> cable modem by typing '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXXXXXX-a eth0',
> where coXXXXXX
> is the client ID, in a root console. This requires you to have the dhcpcd
> package installed; it is available on your Mandrake CD.
>
> One problem I have found with DHCP in Linux is that sometimes my machine
> loses its network connection, and I have to rerun this command. To combat
> this I have put it into a shell script in my path so that I can
> run it with a
> simple command like 'online' instead of '/sbin/dhcpcd -d -n -h coXXXXXX-a
> eth0'. Also, I have set the command to run as a cron job every
> five minutes,
> so that if I lose my connection I will be reconnected
> automatically within
> five minutes.
>
> If you want to log-off the Internet, run 'dhcpcd -k eth0'. I have
> placed this
> in a script called 'offline' to make things easier.
>
>
> On Sat, 4 Nov 2000 17:36, Roger Sherman wrote:
> > 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
>
> --
> Sridhar Dhanapalan
> "One World, One Web, One Programme." - Microsoft Promotional Ad.
> "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer." - Adolf Hitler
>
