That's what I was looking for. Thanks. I'll try later today and let you
know if it works. I've tried some of that, but haven't turned the modem off
and did some other suggested configs. Thanks again.
Ilya Sterin
>From: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Tim Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Ilya Sterin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: [newbie] LAN Cable connection set up
>Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 09:37:55 -0400
>
>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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