nobody Posted May 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 11, 2004 (edited) Ok this is funny i remove cfg-eth0 from network-scipts in /etc/sysconfig and when i reboot it doesn't work but when go to configuration tool and then to internet stuff without changing anything it works.. but when i don't go there it doens't work ??? strange things going on... [edit] woohoo we can edit our posts now :) does anyone know how the system configuration tool works? what files it makes? when i click system configuration tool then I give my root passwoord internet configuration make new connection i select cable the i select eth1 en without doing anything else after the clicking of the box after eth1, my internet works, so i suppose it creates some file at that point? [/edit] Edited May 12, 2004 by nobody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 hmmm ... I honestly think you might wanna abandon the draketools for this. In my experience they work very well or not at all and the not at all tends to be what yuour doing. I have to admit not trying this in the GUI for a long while. problem is I might be busy .... however what you need to get is pppoe-conf. (Im assuming your comfortable with urpmi and CLI ) I usually use webmin and create the interfaces .... In your case Id delete them all then restart.... add eth0 and eth1 etc. and set them up .... it takes longer than the wizard does when it works but is faster than trying to sort out the mess when it doesnt Also ...another option used to be linuxconf. This is now removed from Mandrake becuase its incompatible with the wizards .... BUT its much more flexible.... (p.s. your gnome prob might be NW related) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 (edited) hmmm ... I honestly think you might wanna abandon the draketools for this. In my experience they work very well or not at all and the not at all tends to be what yuour doing. I have to admit not trying this in the GUI for a long while. problem is I might be busy .... however what you need to get is pppoe-conf. (Im assuming your comfortable with urpmi and CLI ) I usually use webmin and create the interfaces .... In your case Id delete them all then restart.... add eth0 and eth1 etc. and set them up .... it takes longer than the wizard does when it works but is faster than trying to sort out the mess when it doesnt Also ...another option used to be linuxconf. This is now removed from Mandrake becuase its incompatible with the wizards .... BUT its much more flexible.... (p.s. your gnome prob might be NW related) the first time i ran linuxconf it worked fine and i changed the settings, after that it reported an error it could not start dhcpd ... so i tried rebooting since i allready had ran the drak wizzard for internet but linuxconf is freezing on me now when i try "hostname and ip network devices" btw i have webmin installed but i doesn't accept my normal login and passwd? do i have to set one first somewhere? it doesn't seem to end... *update* ok had to use root login, stupid me :) Edited May 12, 2004 by nobody Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted May 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 hmmm webmin seems a good tool but still no luck excerpts boot.log: May 12 13:44:56 chief network: Setting network parameters: succeeded May 12 13:44:57 chief network: Bringing up loopback interface: succeeded May 12 13:44:57 chief network: Bringing up interface eth1: failed May 12 13:45:09 chief dhcpd: dhcpd startup failed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 12, 2004 Report Share Posted May 12, 2004 erm Im at work so cant check plus internet has been out half the morning... but are you sure thats the client your having probs with .... eth1 needs to be connected to something that will provide the IP address and other DHCP stuff .... what is it connected to again ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nobody Posted May 13, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 erm Im at work so cant check plus internet has been out half the morning... but are you sure thats the client your having probs with .... eth1 needs to be connected to something that will provide the IP address and other DHCP stuff .... what is it connected to again ? to my cable modem (butele brussels belgium) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted May 13, 2004 Report Share Posted May 13, 2004 what I mean is isn't dhcpd the SERVER not the client. when you start the interface then it just runs a one off search for a IP and stuff .... I think you might be mixing the two up..... hence confusing yourself. Sometimes cable modems dont give out a DHCP becuase they use PPPOE directly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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