Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-25 Thread Mircea Luca
Brendan O'Connor wrote: > > Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent > hostnames. I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's > 'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with > linux...) Any suggestions at all would be very

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-25 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Looking further, I found out that my cable isp does not offer persistent hostnames. I checked what the hostname is under windows, and it's 'NAME.mn.rr.comDEST' which doesn't seem to mean anything (nor work with linux...) Any suggestions at all would be very helpful! Thanks! -- On Mon, 23 Ap

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-25 Thread Brendan O'Connor
Alright, thanks for the help! -- On Mon, 23 Apr 2001 20:54:23 Mircea Luca wrote: >Brendan O'Connor wrote: >> >> I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf >> from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at >> all. >> > > > >> # T

RE: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-24 Thread Mark S
/ect/network/interfaces need your network namethe cr-x number @home gave you. As root, run dpkg-reconfigure etherconf. A text program starts, and you can walk through to set up your eth0. When you get to hostname, type in your crxxx number...right now it reads proginey, then exit and run /

Re: Using dhcp on a home cable connection

2001-04-23 Thread Mircea Luca
Brendan O'Connor wrote: > > I have my ethernet card detected and working (using tulip.o, and etherconf > from Progeny), connected to a cable modem, but the internet isn't working at > all. > > # The ethernet interface, configured by etherconf > iface eth0 inet dhcp > hostname progeny