[SLE] DHCPCD, DCHP and DSL Not Working -- Help Please!!!
I recently got Telocity DSL service and love it -- at least from Windows 98 where I get SDSL speeds approaching 1MB/sec (yes, thats right, synchronous as in upload and download are each 1MB!!!). I am very happy but unfortunately am using Windows 98 as I cannot after 18 hours of trying get SUSE 6.3 to work correctly with my network connection. Please help if you can!!! Regardless of whether I use the dhclient, or instead dhcpcd, I get the same result -- nothing. When I use dhcpcd, I can actually see the dsl modem's LAN and PC lights light up (which is what happens in Windows when the lease is obtained) but no lease is ever obtained. It just sits there for 60 seconds and then quits with a timeout. My ethernet card is configured properly as eth0 and ifconfig shows eth0 up. Route gives me a blank line. I am getting very frsutrated by the lack of documentation for both dhclient and dhcpcd (I have read the docs at isc.org and the man pages, as well as the short blurb in the SuSE help). I am told by Telocity, which makes the modem and provides the DSL service, that Red Hat works "out of the box" with their service. Why not SuSE??!!! This should be a challenge to anyone interested in keeping Telocity customers on SuSE -- fix the problem please!!! In the meantime, does anyone have any ideas about what to try? Note that I have actually been assigned a static ip address and the dsl modem has a static gateway address. I have also tried configuring SuSE for a straight static TCP/IP connection (by using Yast to enter the ip address, gateway address, and netmask all as reported by winipcfg) instead of dhclient or dhpcdp. To no avail .... I get the same result (I see the lights go on, but no connection ... I can't even ping the gateway or any of the three nameservers (ping just hangs -- note though it doesn't say network is unreachable ... interesting)!!!). TIA ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1 -- 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/
On Mon, 11 Feb 2036, Jeffery S.Norman wrote:
I recently got Telocity DSL service and love it -- at least from Windows 98 where I get SDSL speeds approaching 1MB/sec (yes, thats right, synchronous as in upload and download are each 1MB!!!). I am very happy but unfortunately am using Windows 98 as I cannot after 18 hours of trying get SUSE 6.3 to work correctly with my network connection. Please help if you can!!!
Regardless of whether I use the dhclient, or instead dhcpcd, I get the same result -- nothing. When I use dhcpcd, I can actually see the dsl modem's LAN and PC lights light up (which is what happens in Windows when the lease is obtained) but no lease is ever obtained. It just sits there for 60 seconds and then quits with a timeout. -- Big Snip--
TIA
Is this all on the same computer using the same ethernet card or on two different computers or cards? I don't know how your service works, but with mine on BellSouth they identify the machine requesting an address using the hardware "mac" address of the network card. On my service you have to either move the ethernet card with the connection or register the new card before the server will respond and assign an address. Longshot but thought I would check. -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Darren R. Weber drw@linuxfan.com ICQ# 2849193 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- 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/
If you've got a static IP, why are you using DHCP? I have PacBell DSL and a static IP. All I have to do to get it going is: ifconfig eth1 63.194.251.2 broadcast 63.194.251.255 netmask 255.255.255.0 up route add default gw 63.194.251.254 "63.194.251.2" is my static IP, and "63.194.251.254" is PacBell's next-hop gateway. After doing the above, a "route -n" shows: Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 63.194.251.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 127.0.0.0 0.0.0.0 255.0.0.0 U 0 0 0 lo 0.0.0.0 63.194.251.254 0.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth1 and an "ifconfig eth1" looks like: eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:78:16:36:64 inet addr:63.194.251.2 Bcast:63.194.251.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 RX packets:996657 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 TX packets:1256082 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 collisions:74 Jeffery S.Norman said:
I recently got Telocity DSL service and love it -- at least from Windows 98 where I get SDSL speeds approaching 1MB/sec (yes, thats right, synchronous as in upload and download are each 1MB!!!). I am very happy but unfortunately am using Windows 98 as I cannot after 18 hours of trying get SUSE 6.3 to work correctly with my network connection. Please help if you can!!!
Regardless of whether I use the dhclient, or instead dhcpcd, I get the same result -- nothing. When I use dhcpcd, I can actually see the dsl modem's LAN and PC lights light up (which is what happens in Windows when the lease is obtained) but no lease is ever obtained. It just sits there for 60 seconds and then quits with a timeout. My ethernet card is configured properly as eth0 and ifconfig shows eth0 up. Route gives me a blank line. I am getting very frsutrated by the lack of documentation for both dhclient and dhcpcd (I have read the docs at isc.org and the man pages, as well as the short blurb in the SuSE help).
I am told by Telocity, which makes the modem and provides the DSL service, that Red Hat works "out of the box" with their service. Why not SuSE??!!! This should be a challenge to anyone interested in keeping Telocity customers on SuSE -- fix the problem please!!!
In the meantime, does anyone have any ideas about what to try?
Note that I have actually been assigned a static ip address and the dsl modem has a static gateway address. I have also tried configuring SuSE for a straight static TCP/IP connection (by using Yast to enter the ip address, gateway address, and netmask all as reported by winipcfg) instead of dhclient or dhpcdp. To no avail .... I get the same result (I see the lights go on, but no connection ... I can't even ping the gateway or any of the three nameservers (ping just hangs -- note though it doesn't say network is unreachable ... interesting)!!!).
TIA
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