Yesterday I finally got my cable modem (Adelphia). Hooked it up to windows, and it worked wonderfully. I was told that, in general, Adelphia doesn't change the IP information, and it would be safe to copy it to the Debian box. So I wrote down the information, moved the cable modem over to my debian box, and set it up.
It worked for about 2 hours. Presumably, the DHCP server switched my information on me. So I installed the dhcp-client package and set it up. Didn't work. So I removed that package and tried dhcpcd, which I actually had documents for. That didn't work either. Here's the information I have. It's somewhat sparse, but it's all that I could find. (information seperated by ----) ---- # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface iface lo inet loopback # The first network card - this entry was created during the Debian installation # (network, broadcast and gateway are optional) iface eth0 inet dhcp hostname "cy119366-a" #leasehours 1 #leasetime 3600 ---- white:/etc/dhcpc# more config # List here the interface that the dhcpcd daemon should use. # The default is to assign an IP address to eth0. # If you want to disable the daemon, enter "none" here. IFACE=eth0 # Add options here, examples are: # OPTIONS='-h "foo"' set hostname (needed by some cablemodem providers) # OPTIONS='-l 12345' set leasetime OPTIONS='-h cy119366-a' ---- syslog: Oct 31 00:03:14 white dhcpcd[274]: timed out waiting for a valid DHCP server response ---- Also, ifconfig doesn't show eth0. When I was running DHCP-client, eth0 did show up, but without an IP address (not even 0.0.0.0, which is what I was lead to believe would happen). dhcpcd doesn't show up in a ps, and when run manually eventually exits without any output. All help is appreciated. --Mike
