I moved recently and now have an Adelphia cable high-speed connection to the internet. I previously had a cable internet connection as well, but with a different provider. My linux boxes are set to get their IP and nameservers via DHCP, but for some reason, I'm unable to do so with the Adelphia cable connection. The initial setup of the service was done (as required) on a Windows machine (my Dell Latitude D600 laptop) and I can connect (as I am now) via Windows to the internet. This laptop is a dual-boot setup and my SUSE 9.1 *can't* seem to get an IP or nameservers and connect. The 'ifconfig' command shows the eth0 interface with some Rx and Tx packets, but no IP address and pinging outside sites like yahoo.com and linux.com says they can't be found. The adelphia tech support says they can't really help, but are sending someone later today to check the modem (although, again, it works fine with Windows). I wanted to see if anyone else on list had experience with Adelphia or knew of something I might try. Also, I've tried to connect with the cable connection and my linux desktop with the same results (or lack thereof). These machines were connecting with the other cable provider as recently as 5 days ago and I've not changed anything on the machines. Thanks for any tips. -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 10:25 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
I moved recently and now have an Adelphia cable high-speed connection to the internet. I previously had a cable internet connection as well, but with a different provider. My linux boxes are set to get their IP and nameservers via DHCP, but for some reason, I'm unable to do so with the Adelphia cable connection. The initial setup of the service was done (as required) on a Windows machine (my Dell Latitude D600 laptop) and I can connect (as I am now) via Windows to the internet. This laptop is a dual-boot setup and my SUSE 9.1 *can't* seem to get an IP or nameservers and connect. The 'ifconfig' command shows the eth0 interface with some Rx and Tx packets, but no IP address and pinging outside sites like yahoo.com and linux.com says they can't be found.
The adelphia tech support says they can't really help, but are sending someone later today to check the modem (although, again, it works fine with Windows). I wanted to see if anyone else on list had experience with Adelphia or knew of something I might try.
Also, I've tried to connect with the cable connection and my linux desktop with the same results (or lack thereof). These machines were connecting with the other cable provider as recently as 5 days ago and I've not changed anything on the machines.
Thanks for any tips. -- Trey Sizemore trey@fastmail.fm ==========
Trey, It sounds like you might not be working with DHCP service with this ISP. Check your Windows side to see how the installed software set it up, as it should have listed "automatic" or just the static IP address. You might check with Adelphia also to see what they give you, dhcp or static. If it's static, it's still pretty simple to fix in your Network Devices settings, you just have to drop a few things in manually. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
BandiPat wrote:
Trey, It sounds like you might not be working with DHCP service with this ISP. Check your Windows side to see how the installed software set it up, as it should have listed "automatic" or just the static IP address. You might check with Adelphia also to see what they give you, dhcp or static. If it's static, it's still pretty simple to fix in your Network Devices settings, you just have to drop a few things in manually.
Lee
No, it's definitely DHCP. I had inquired about getting a static IP, but it was outrageously expensive. Plus, they don't allow you to run servers of any type. AAARRGGGHHH. Anyway, is there any reason why Windows would be able to get an IP address and Linux wouldn't? I remember someone mentioning a problem a while back about issues with hotels when they traveled that offered high speed. They could connect with Windows, but their Linux laptop had a lot of issues. Thanks.
On Wednesday 30 June 2004 12:39 pm, Trey Sizemore wrote:
BandiPat wrote:
Trey, It sounds like you might not be working with DHCP service with this ISP. Check your Windows side to see how the installed software set it up, as it should have listed "automatic" or just the static IP address. You might check with Adelphia also to see what they give you, dhcp or static. If it's static, it's still pretty simple to fix in your Network Devices settings, you just have to drop a few things in manually.
Lee
No, it's definitely DHCP. I had inquired about getting a static IP, but it was outrageously expensive. Plus, they don't allow you to run servers of any type. AAARRGGGHHH.
Anyway, is there any reason why Windows would be able to get an IP address and Linux wouldn't? I remember someone mentioning a problem a while back about issues with hotels when they traveled that offered high speed. They could connect with Windows, but their Linux laptop had a lot of issues.
Thanks. ==========
I can't think of any reason you shouldn't be able to connect with Linux as easily as Windows. What do your Windows settings report? That will go a long way in telling you what you have and how it's setup. I can't imagine these people tying into Windows only operation! Of course, stranger & dumber things have happened. ;o) Someone with more knowledge of such things may have to contribute on this one as I don't think I can offer any thing else. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6.2 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.1 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...
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