On Sat, 21 Apr 2001 13:48:23 -0400 Clarence Donath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> spake
unto us:
> Has anyone here any experience getting Linux to work with the cable
> Internet access service Road Runner? Is it doable, is it difficult or
> easy, and did you have to do anything special to get it to work?
>
> I'm asking, not having the service myself, but for a member of a group I
> belong to and provide Linux support.
I have it and it was easy. I'm using a NIC to a hub situation. I just set
up /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 as follows:
DEVICE=eth0
ONBOOT=yes
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
IPADDR=
NETMASK=
HOSTNAME=alan.harry.net
IPXNETNUM_802_2=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_2="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_2="no"
IPXNETNUM_802_3=""
IPXPRIMARY_802_3="no"
IPXACTIVE_802_3="no"
IPXNETNUM_ETHERII=""
IPXPRIMARY_ETHERII="no"
IPXACTIVE_ETHERII="no"
IPXNETNUM_SNAP=""
IPXPRIMARY_SNAP="no"
IPXACTIVE_SNAP="no"
BROADCAST=
NETWORK=
USERCTL=no
After that, made sure the NIC was working and a simple (as root):
/sbin/service network restart
Comes up on its own at boot.
I've had a problem or 2 with modules however (not related to RR) in that
they weren't getting installed at boot. So, I changed the atboot= line to
no, manually rmmod, insmod and ifup in the rc.local script whenever that
has happened (like it currently does). I get that as follows:
/sbin/ifdown eth0 > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/rmmod tulip > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/insmod tulip > /dev/null 2>&1
/sbin/ifup eth0 > /dev/null 2>&1
That always works, whether the modules manage to get installed properly in
the first place or if they fail, just as long as the modules work at all
(tulip mods sometimes are screwy). Change the module to whatever yours
uses.
As always YMMV.
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