Guest milir Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Hi, I am running Mandrake 10 and i have got a new cable modem ( Motorola Surfboard) which connects to my ethernet card. Mandrake is able to recognize the ethernet card and dmesg returned eth0: Broadcom 4400 10/100BaseT Ethernet 00:0b:db:ba:26:2b But i am not sure how to go about setting the internet connection by dhcp. I have the MAC address, Gateway, DNS server ip's got through my windows (dual boot). It would be really hepful if you could help me step by step in setting it up or point out where i can find one. thanks--millir Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 Make sure the firewall is turned off Go through the wizard and configure a Network Connection. Make sure it's ser to get the IP automatically And you're done :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest milir Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 Yeah the firewall is turned off and i tried the wizard ,but no luck its not able to assign an IP . Could anyone help me with these two question 1. How to change the eth0 address to that of the MAC address of the cable modem 2. To specify the hostname in the configuration wizard would "localhost" suffice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted August 7, 2004 Report Share Posted August 7, 2004 You dont need to change eth0 to the MAC of the cable. It should be able to get an ip automatically. can you try: dhcpcd eth0 as root in the command line and tell me what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarissi Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Just have it detect and setup a LAN connection (Mandrake). I also have Cable ISP and run the cable modem through the mobo's builtin NIC. As long as the NIC is functioning in Mandrake, it should be easy to setup a LAN connection (which is how Cable internet providers treat the connections. USB ethernet nics are a whole different story......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest milir Posted August 9, 2004 Report Share Posted August 9, 2004 Hi thanks for helping, First of all to answer iphitus, i guess i messed up somewhere, though i have dhcpd running i have no /etc/dhcpd.conf file. Running dhcpd eth0 as root didnt provide any useful results except for a message telling what it was. To awesome, do you want me to find the ip adress and stuff and assign them myself in the LAN connection wizard?? By the way i bought a router today whihc assigns DHCP IPs and let me try with that . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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