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| I have a Ericsson 200 external cable modem hooked up to my XP/Mandrake 9.0
machine via Ethernet. So far I have not had any correct answers. It does not
connect with mandrake (XP works fine) During boot up it fails to load at
eth0. I can run control center internet connections - wizard- set to DHCP
(which is right) Leave everything else blank as Road runner said. Click
connect and after a few seconds I get "not connected, check config" or
something like that. Does anyone know how to make Mandrake work with a
external modem. One person told me I HAD to run the cable modem through a
router. is this true? I would be GLAD to RTFM if someone would be so kind as
to point me to the damn thing, I've read everything else.
Rob
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| Garry Knight 2002-10-02, 9:25 pm |
| Rob wrote:
> I have a Ericsson 200 external cable modem hooked up to my XP/Mandrake 9.0
> machine via Ethernet. So far I have not had any correct answers. It does
> not connect with mandrake (XP works fine) During boot up it fails to load
> at eth0. I can run control center internet connections - wizard- set to
> DHCP (which is right)
And is a DHCP client daemon running?
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| How would I check, I am new to Linux (4 weeks) but learn quickly. I assume
that one is running by default.
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> Rob wrote:
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> > I have a Ericsson 200 external cable modem hooked up to my XP/Mandrake
9.0
> > machine via Ethernet. So far I have not had any correct answers. It does
> > not connect with mandrake (XP works fine) During boot up it fails to
load
> > at eth0. I can run control center internet connections - wizard- set to
> > DHCP (which is right)
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> And is a DHCP client daemon running?
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> garryknight@gmx.net ICQ: 126351135
> Linux registered user 182025
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| John Danielson 2002-10-02, 10:25 pm |
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Rob wrote:
> I have a Ericsson 200 external cable modem hooked up to my
> XP/Mandrake 9.0 machine via Ethernet. So far I have not had any
> correct answers. It does not connect with mandrake (XP works fine)
> During boot up it fails to load at eth0. I can run control center
> internet connections - wizard- set to DHCP (which is right) Leave
> everything else blank as Road runner said. Click connect and after a
> few seconds I get "not connected, check config" or something like
> that. Does anyone know how to make Mandrake work with a external
> modem. One person told me I HAD to run the cable modem through a
> router. is this true? I would be GLAD to RTFM if someone would be so
> kind as to point me to the damn thing, I've read everything else. Rob
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Rob, if and only if yuo are going to run exactly one machine through the
modem,you can run without a router-- IF you are going to share the
connect at all, router will be needed. Essentially, the router would
meke everything easier because the router would then take the load of
figuring out the IPs from Linux, and the router's IP would become both
your Gateway and DNS as far as Linux was concerned. Then, the ROUTER
would be the DHCPing part to themodem and to RoadRunner. Adn Linux would
run in LAN connection mode and not need to be in an ADSL\Cable
configuration.
Using PPPoE makes things *interesting*, and I am kinda glad I have a
Cable connect that foregoes PPPOE (even in Windows I do not need, it,
although their tech support did not like that part, or the fact that my
firewall grabs a second IP for itself and masks my IP when I am in
Windows mode-- and in Linux mode the firewall does not do this and they
can see the box right although they cannot break it.
I would agree, however, that in this case a gateway router would make
sense-- gateway from your mini-LAN to the world (internet cloud is world).
John.
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| Garry Knight 2002-10-02, 10:25 pm |
| Rob wrote:
> "Garry Knight" <garryknight@gmx.net> wrote in message
> news:1033610529.98662.8@iapetus.uk.clara.net...
>> And is a DHCP client daemon running?
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> How would I check, I am new to Linux (4 weeks) but learn quickly. I assume
> that one is running by default.
Run the following command in a console:
ps ax | grep dhcp
It should show up something like this:
923 ? S 0:00 /sbin/dhcpcd -Y -N eth0
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| I fixed it, I had to replace my Ethernet card and it WORKS!!
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"John Danielson" <jdii12155@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Rob wrote:
> > I have a Ericsson 200 external cable modem hooked up to my
> > XP/Mandrake 9.0 machine via Ethernet. So far I have not had any
> > correct answers. It does not connect with mandrake (XP works fine)
> > During boot up it fails to load at eth0. I can run control center
> > internet connections - wizard- set to DHCP (which is right) Leave
> > everything else blank as Road runner said. Click connect and after a
> > few seconds I get "not connected, check config" or something like
> > that. Does anyone know how to make Mandrake work with a external
> > modem. One person told me I HAD to run the cable modem through a
> > router. is this true? I would be GLAD to RTFM if someone would be so
> > kind as to point me to the damn thing, I've read everything else. Rob
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> >
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> Rob, if and only if yuo are going to run exactly one machine through the
> modem,you can run without a router-- IF you are going to share the
> connect at all, router will be needed. Essentially, the router would
> meke everything easier because the router would then take the load of
> figuring out the IPs from Linux, and the router's IP would become both
> your Gateway and DNS as far as Linux was concerned. Then, the ROUTER
> would be the DHCPing part to themodem and to RoadRunner. Adn Linux would
> run in LAN connection mode and not need to be in an ADSL\Cable
> configuration.
>
> Using PPPoE makes things *interesting*, and I am kinda glad I have a
> Cable connect that foregoes PPPOE (even in Windows I do not need, it,
> although their tech support did not like that part, or the fact that my
> firewall grabs a second IP for itself and masks my IP when I am in
> Windows mode-- and in Linux mode the firewall does not do this and they
> can see the box right although they cannot break it.
>
> I would agree, however, that in this case a gateway router would make
> sense-- gateway from your mini-LAN to the world (internet cloud is world).
>
> John.
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| On Mon, 28 Oct 2002 01:35:47 +0000, Jason Kataropoulos wrote:
> I have the Motorola SB4200 cable modem. Just installed Mandrake 9.0 and I
> am new, VERY NEW to linux. I know that I can install it and connect to the
> cable modem via my ethernet card but I don't want to do this as my
> ethernet card connects me to the rest of the LAN. How do I install the
> modem?
>
> Any ideas please?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
>
> Jason Kataropoulos
Purchase a DSL/Cable Router, connect it to lan and configure it.
Then go here; http://www.linuxselfhelp.com/index.shtml
And follow Bit Twister's advice.
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| Manuel Silva 2002-10-27, 9:25 pm |
| Hi!
Do you two Network Interface Cards (NICs)? I don't know that modem but
if you have it plugged to a different NIC than the one used by your LAN
you might be able to activate and deactivate it manually without
breaking your LAN connection. I don't know if that modem has USB plugs
but even if it has, I don't recommend it. If you just have one NIC,
probably it isn't bad idea to add a new one just to plug the modem to
it, just pay attention to your configurations to block internal traffic
(otherwise you may waste resources).
Regards,
Manuel
Jason Kataropoulos wrote:
> I have the Motorola SB4200 cable modem. Just installed Mandrake 9.0 and I am
> new, VERY NEW to linux. I know that I can install it and connect to the
> cable modem via my ethernet card but I don't want to do this as my ethernet
> card connects me to the rest of the LAN. How do I install the modem?
>
> Any ideas please?!!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
>
> Jason Kataropoulos
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