Linux and my cable modem

[Scav]

I use At&t @home cable modem service. The way their service works is the modem plugs into a network card and the only set up you need to do is change your computer name and workgroup to the ones they gave you.

Its really easy in windows but I would like to set up my modem to run under linux which I have on part of this machine. The setup program there looks for the I.P. numbers and all that junk but I cannot provide any. Is there some way I can get around that like anouther setting to change or perhaps a file I could install.

@home doesn't have any set up instructions on their web site and they dont ever mention linux but its not like they send different signals for linux machines is it? There has gotta be someway. Thank you for at least reading this and any help you can give me.

[Null Actor]

Don't try to configure a cable modem in linux, just configure a LAN. That should do everything you need to get it running.

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Lag? What's lag? That's something from the 20th century, right?

[Scav]

I tried to do what you said and set it up as a local network (running Linux Mandrake 7.2) but when I clicked to create a new network and chose a local area network it still asked me for all the same numbers and stuff and never gave me a slot to put in my computer name and work group. Im sure Im just doing it wrong but I don't know how to do it right 8(.

[TotalRecall]

Is it asking for DNS numbers?

Maybe you could run winipcfg for some information.

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[Canis Lupus]

Hehe, I don't think Linux has winipcfg .. but I am sure there is a Linux counterpart for it, if that's what you mean http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/wink.gif

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[TotalRecall]

Hehe...I meant running it in Windows for the information. http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/smile.gif

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Hamster Liberation Front (http://www.the-group.org/vip/HLF)

Changes aren't permanent, but change is.

[Sizlis]

Originally posted by Canis Lupus:
Hehe, I don't think Linux has winipcfg .. but I am sure there is a Linux counterpart for it, if that's what you mean http://www.opentechsupport.net/forums/wink.gif



You should be able to find out using a network utility something like "NETSTAT" does linux have anything alone that line?

[Scav]

I've toyed with it and maybe its not just the numbers being my problem, i thought linux installed everything cause it looked like most my stuff was working but i dont think it insalled my network card. I put in the driver disk and the directions it gave me made absolutely no sense. Is there a new hardware thing i can run in linux like i can in windows?

[Kerash]

Yes. You need NIC drivers. The Domain ( IE: sympatico.ca ) Primary DNS, Login, Pass. ( Ussualy for Mandrake 7.2 you should have the Login like: ' Username@sympatico.ca ' )
Submask, IP ( Optional. ), The kernel module instruction, Connection type, encryption type, ( This may very. )

And yes. Boot Windows 98. Connect to your ISP. Click: ' Start ' select: ' Run ' Type: ' winipcfg ' and that will have some information on your connection. Write it down, Boot Mandrake and provide the information you had writin' down.
( As if you had the NIC drivers. )

The rest is elementury.

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