On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Daniel Woodard wrote: <-]Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2000 14:24:48 -0500 <-]From: Daniel Woodard <design@mindspring.com> <-]To: suse-linux-e@suse.com <-]Subject: RE: [SLE] @home cable modem in linux <-] <-] <-]I have @home, but with a static IP. Lucky I guess. <-] <-]I have a Cisco UBR900 modem that seems locked to my ethernet card. I used <-]to could use other ethernet cards, but now I have to use the SMC whatever <-]they gave me. Luckily it's a straight-up tulip card driver. <-] <-]Otherwise, I have heard that out of the box SuSE DHCP don't work with @home <-]and to use DHCPD. <-] <-]There's been a bunch of postings on this in the last week or so. <-] <-]If "steg" wants, I can forward him about 10-20 of those recent e-mails, or <-]is this list searchable? <-] <-]later... <-]At 11:08 AM 1/13/00 -0800, Mr. M wrote: <-]>> could you be more specific. I have @home and I am trying in vain to <-]>> get to the web.. I am also a newbie and have all of a month of linux under <-]>> my belt. I know this may be a pain but there are alot of @home users out <-]>> here and most are having a hard time.. <-]>> <-]> Well, once again, DHCP/networking is causing troubles all over the SuSE community. This list is searcheable....I suggest to use www.geocrawler.com to find what's been said and said again on this topic in the past few months... It seems that the SuSE DHCP client (DHClient) is not working very well (at least within the default configuration framework). The basic hint anyone would suggest is to use another DHCP client to get on the network: DHCPCD. Most SuSE 6.X using a cable modem will be able to get connected with DHCPCD 1.3.18 (even 1.3.17). But before complaining of any kind of troubles, you should all verify that the NIC is properly recognized by the OS. Try 'lsmod' as root user to see if the correct module is loaded. If no, correct it (be sure of what kind of NIC you are using and which module you need). If it still doesn't work, now you can complain about the DHCP client of SUSE. Using DCHPCD should correct the problem. It all depends on what kind of DHCP Server your ISP is using. There had been some links on linuxdoc.org and metalab.unc.edu about cablemodem mini HOWTO's, but they are no longer available. Here are the archives I found on Google for these HOWTO's, related informations on your ISP and the kind of NIC and DHCP client you are working with, the module you need for your NIC: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~vuksan/linux/Cable-Modem-3.html http://www.cs.unm.edu/~vuksan/linux/ http://www.oswg.org/oswg-nightly/oswg/en_US.ISO_8859-1/articles/Cable-Modem/... You can also find informations on DHCP client with the DHCP HOWTO, where to find DHCPCD, how to install it: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~vuksan/linux/DHCP.html Kindest regards... ________________ Nicolas Beaulieu Economics Department, Universite Laval Centre de Recherches en Economie et Finances Appliquees (CREFA) Quebec, Canada 418-626-5033 _________________ http://www.penguinpowered.com/~montesquieu montesquieu@penguinpowered.com ICQ 15933500 ---> http://www.ccfa.org <--- ---> http://www.ccfc.ca <--- _________________ " La raison fait l'homme, mais c'est le sentiment qui le conduit. " Jean-Jacques Rousseau Discours sur l'origine et le fondement de l'inegalite parmi les hommes. _________________ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/