Perry Moon wrote:

Hello,

I am hoping that someone that has allready sufferd the frustration I have been going through and succeded in getting their Linux box to connect to a Media One via cable modem will help me out here.

I am relativly ignorant when it comes to Linux networking. I run and have run several flavors of Linux, but have never configured anything other than dial-up ppp. I have a ton of info and some how-to's from the net on cable modems, but none are very direct and to the point of what is actually required step by step. I would not be imbarassed if one of you kind people out there would drag me by the nose through the process of getting this darn thing going. Weentered all the IP info from MediaOne via Yast and the eht0 (3com 3c509b) seems to be recognized ok at boot up and I can ping localhost and eth0's IP ok but nothing outside the box. Have tried several DHCP clients the last of which came from ftp.suse.com in the 5.3 dir as an rpm (made package install easier but still no go). By the way, I am at 5.3 currently [still waiting for my 6.0 subscribtion package to show :-( ]. None of the docs in the DHCP packages seems to make a whole lot of sence to me. Please help, I beseach the.....!!!

I've set up cable modems for RoadRunner (Time-Warner) and @Home - both totally different. @Home was FAR EASIER!!! Anyway, can you ping the ISP's DNS? Do they use a login client? Try this: boot Windows, and make sure you can communicate normally, then unplug the cable from eth0, boot Linux, and wait until you are logged in to plug cable back in. Then ping the DNS and then some other site (not www.microsoft.com - they will not respond). Let me know what happens. George - To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A">http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/</A</A>> and the archive at <A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html"><A HREF="http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A">http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html</A</A>>