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Well, everybody's out of the house, so I thought I'd get the ol' cable back out and get on the internet to get some updates, software and try out certain things.

 

I cannot seem to connect to the cable modem though. The cable modem, a Motorola SB4200, is functioning: all the led's are on and there is a blinking orange one to indicate activity.

 

This worked fine in 9.1, after I discovered I first had to reset my cable modem. Now, I cannot get a IP adress. I think the problem has something to do with this line:

"SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy".

 

I ran a few config tools, you can see their results in the attachment. The components alone seem to work fine, but something is wrong...

 

 

 

Darkelve

cable_connection.txt

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I got the exact same errors when switching from dialup to cable for the first time. I wasn't telling drakconnect to config LAN (eth0) AND 'Cable' connection'. I just wasn't taking my time and didn't see the 'Cable' option to tick it. Probably not your prob but I thought I'd mention it anyway.

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I googled around a bit and have tried and come up with some more info:

 

Dhclient gives:

 

[root@localhost wouter]# dhclient

Internet Software Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1rc11

Copyright 1995-2002 Internet Software Consortium.

All rights reserved.

For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

 

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

SIOCSIFFLAGS: Device or resource busy

Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:5d:84:61

Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:5d:84:61

Listening on LPF/lo/

Sending on LPF/lo/

Sending on Socket/fallback

receive_packet failed on eth0: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5

send_packet: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 5

send_packet: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10

send_packet: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 16

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18

send_packet: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 18

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 15

send_packet: Network is down

DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7

DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8

send_packet: Network is down

No DHCPOFFERS received.

No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.

 

The connection does work under WinXP, with following settings:

 

 

Windows IP-configuratie

 

 

Ethernet-adapter LAN-verbinding:

 

Verbindingsspec. DNS-achtervoegsel: pandora.be

IP-adres. . . . . . . . . . . . . : 81.83.73.26

Subnetmasker. . . . . . . . . . . : 255.255.252.0

Standaardgateway. . . . . . . . . : 81.83.72.1

 

 

Gonna follow a suggestion by someone, by adding the IP-address (or gateway address?) and adding 1 number e.g. 81.83.73.27 or 81.83.72.2

 

If anyone has a clue on why or how, plz let me know ;)

 

Darkelve

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