@home cable troubles 1

[Hatecrime69]

I'm running linux mandrake 7.1 that i got from maximum linux and i can't figure out what to do to get my @home cable modem working in linux, it works fine otherwise in my 2 other os's (win98/BeOS) but i can't figure it out in linux, thanks!

 

[boebox]

Please be more specific on what is the problem? For @home, it's pretty simple, go thrue the list below:

1) /etc/resolve.conf

nameserver dns ip address
nameserver secondary dns ip paddress

2) /etc/nsswitch.conf

hosts: dns files

3) make sure your hostname is the one @home provided

4)/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

DEVICE="eth0"
BOOTPROTO="none"
IPADDR=&quot;192.168.0.1&quot; <----------- This is your ip address
NETMASK=&quot;255.255.255.128&quot; <----- and subnet mask
ONBOOT=&quot;yes&quot;

5) linuxconfig will do all of this for you!!

If it still does not work, give us details.

Tony

 

[Hatecrime69]

Well, i did what you said but it gives me an error about my $socks_ne (or whatever) and mentions some netscape words (I can't rember them off hand) i think it was doman servers or something, i don't know..

 

[Hatecrime69]

here it the error i get:
Warning: the following hosts are unknown:
home.netscape.com
home6.netscape.com
internic.net
This means that some or all hosts will be unreachable.
Perhaps there is a problem with your name server?
If your site must use a non-root name server, you
will need to set the $SOCKS_NS enviroment variable
to point at the appropriate name server. It may (or
may not) be necessary to set this variable, or the
socks host preferencde, to the IP address of the host
in question rather than its name

 

[d3funct]

The reason you get this problem is because your /etc/hosts and /etc/resolv.conf are incorrect and are not resolving your providers DNS server. Your providers DNS server should be defined in /etc/hosts.
Jon Zimmer
jon.zimmer@pf.net
The software required `Windows 95 or better', so I installed Linux.

 

[Hatecrime69]

I don't understand what stuff it is asking for, i'm confused on what it needs and where

 

[Hatecrime69]

I found out that my ip is not the ip that i set it to through the config for my network card, it lists it through ipconfig as 127.0.0.1 instead of what my cable modem is, how do i set it to what it is supposto be?