Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all: I had problems with the dhcp client that comes with slink, so I installed the version that's in potato. It installed okay, but it prompted me for a network device from a list that it apparently found. Unfortunately, it found none. I have a Linksys card and I've been to their site and

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -host 127.0.0.1 lo IPADDR=192.168.1.1 NETMASK=255.255.255.0 NETWORK=192.168.1.0

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. [Config info clipped] This code brings up the network. you might want to check

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam wrote: Hi Mark, I have a Linksys and it seems like your card is identified right. However. take a look at /etc/init.d/network. I am using IP 192.168.1.1 and have it like this. [config info snipped] This code brings up the network. you might want to check

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Vaidhyanathan G Mayilrangam
Hi Mark, Couple of things. /etc/init.d/network is not your normal stop, start, restart stuff.. It just executes a series of command. your resolv.conf should have search your.domain.com nameserver 1 nameserver 2 nameserver 3 .. For eg, I call my network at home loonys.net. so my resolv.conf

Re: Confused about Cable modem/ NIC setup

1999-04-04 Thread Mark Wagnon
Vaidhy: Thanks for all your help. The the Net-3-HOWTO combined with some info I found from my local LUG's mail archives got me going. Everything I had seemed to be okay, I just added: route add default gw ${GATEWAY} eth0 to my /etc/init.d/network file and I was able to ping my nameservers.