[Fwd: cable modem installation woes] (fwd)

[Noah Fields]

I did setup eth0 to use dchp under RedHat 5.0 with RCN's cable modem
service. Its a bit of a blur now, but here we go.

I think at the time I used the "Control Panel" which is part of the default
window manager layout for root (yeah yeah, I ran startx as root, but hey,
it was a fresh out of the box RedHat Installation.... )  Any way, there was
a place to configure networking, and it must have been farly obvious,
because I stumbled through that with the RCN guy there, and managed to make
it look like I had done it before (which I had not)...

Any way, I believe that RedHat used that information to write the files in
/etc/sysconfig/network and /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/eth0 and the like
for  the network startup stuff.

Another thing I remember is that we had to turn off  the cable modem for 20
seconds at one point, and the details of why we did this are a bit sketchy
to me...

I am sorry, I should have taken better notes...

- Noah



At 10:01 AM -0400 6/4/99, Jerry Feldman {75562} wrote:
>I received this from a friend of mine who uses Red Hat with a Cable
>Modem. I am not receiving email from discuss here today, so please forgive
>if this is already answered.
>
>I believe rcn works the same as mediaone, you need to send it your hostname
>before it will respond, hence eth0 will fail on startup and not show up.
>Modify /sbin/ifup and add to the dhcpcd line  a -h and the hostname
>assigned by the cable company.  example: dhcpcd -h r2d2
>
>I assume his references to "control panet" he means linuxconf
>There are more drivers at red hat's ftp site, but some sort of driver must
>be in place or eth0 would not have showed up. The linux install
>program list a lot of ethernet controllers, he must have selected one?
>> Wass wrote:
>> >
>> > Greetings everybody,
>> >
>> >         I'm a relative linux newbie, though I've been using various unices
>> > for the past 5 years.  All this administration stuff is new to me.  I just
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