I'm assuming you're trying to connect this Linux box to the RoadRunner server by
itself,
and not through a gateway router.
Let's start in DrakConf. Since you're using Mandrake 8, there's an option on the left,
that reads "Network & Internet." Select that option, then select the Connection
option.
>From what you've said below, it sounds like you've gone through this method.
Go through and configure the card. You can select the Cable Connection, or LAN
connection,
either will work since they are basically the same set up. Tell it to use DHCP, if it
doesn't have the software, it will prompt for the CD and will install it. It will
tell you
that it's going to restart the network. I can't remember if it gives you a choice to
say
no, but if it does, tell it now. It's just going to time out.
After you've done that, power off your cable modem. Leave it off for a good 10
seconds or
so, then power it back on.
Now head back to your Linux box. su - to root, and run this command.
[root@r2d2 /root]# /etc/init.d/network status
Configured devices:
lo eth0
Devices that are down:
Devices with modified configuration:
You should get some variant of that output when you run that command. However if you
see
eth0 listed under "Devices that are down:" then you're network card is not completely
configured. If your output does look like that, then run this command.
[root@yoda /root]# /etc/rc.d/init.d/network restart
Setting network parameters: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface lo: [ OK ]
Bringing up interface eth0: [ OK ]
And that should look something like it does above. It may take a little bit of time at
bringing up interface eth0, that's expected since it's trying to get an IP address
from the
DHCP server. If it comes back and gives you an [ OK ] then you should be set. But
to
make sure run the command ifconfig. Your out put will look something like this.
[root@r2d2 /root]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
inet addr:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Bcast:XX.XXX.XXX.XXX Mask:XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX
UP BROADCAST NOTRAILERS RUNNING MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:720497 errors:2 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:2
TX packets:123941 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
collisions:20 txqueuelen:100
RX bytes:439288285 (418.9 Mb) TX bytes:10165271 (9.6 Mb)
Interrupt:3 Base address:0x9400
lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:165792 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb) TX bytes:17628231 (16.8 Mb)
The numbers that are X'd out are the ones that you should look at. The inet addr will
be
your IP address. From there you will be able to get to the outside world with no
problem.
Try testing it by pinging yahoo.com, or something else that's local. Then check if
your
machine also downloaded the DNS information. It's stored in /etc/resolv.conf, and will
like this most likely.
[root@r2d2 /root]# cat /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 24.131.1.9
nameserver 24.131.1.8
search mw.mediaone.net
That should then get your machine on the network. Now if your machine is going through
another machine that's doing internet connection sharing, then you'll have to go other
routes on getting your Mandrake 8 box on the Internet.
tdh
T. Holmes
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| I am trying to install NetGear ethernet card to use with my cable modem
| (RoadRunner service, dynamically assigns IP addresses) which is recognized
| and uses the tulip driver on Mandrake 8.0. It seems like the detection
| using the Mandrake Internet Configuration, goes fine. It detects an
| ethernet card and sets up LAN with no error messages. Under host I tried
| rr.twmi.com and the default localhost.localdomain, neither work, but I don't
| really know what host they are looking for. Neither worked though, my Win2K
| system works fine and with ipconfig tells me that the default host is
| rr.twmi.com (that's where I got it from). After the internet set up, the
| applet has the connect to internet button which when I click tries (for
| about 20-30 seconds) to connect but with no luck. I did select auto dhcp,
| when setting up. A few times the applet actually showed that something was
| send, but no bytes received??? I am also not sure that anything was ever
| send, since there is no way for me to verify and the applet might have a
| different deffinition of send and consider no error as send??? Am I missing
| some steps here? I did go through the archive and found that I need to run
| the
| 'dhcpcd -d -n -h COxxxxxxx-A eth0'
| command. What is COxxxxxx-A are the x's need to be subsituted, or is this a
| litteral meaning?
|
| Thanks in advance to anyone that replies.
|
| Ilya Sterin
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