Newbie Question: Configuring Cable Connection for Linux

[exesyoung]

Hi I am very new to linux and I just my cable connection a few days ago. I have not done any configuration on my Mandrake 7.2 and during the startup check at it says something about dhcpcd unable to detect. Please enlighten me on how I can go about getting cable to work in linux. By the way I am located in Canada and is using Rogers AT&T cable connection. Thanks

[Taizong]

That is a bit much of info to go over quickly. I suggest going to
www.linuxdoc.org (http://www.linuxdoc.org)

And checking out their Cable Modem Howto. I am not sure if there is a NHF on it here....

[exesyoung]

actually i was just hoping people who are using rogers@home too to help me out a little.

[Okie]

i am pretty sure that cable modems should be setup as a Local Area Network, thats how i do mine, and if you know the details IP, subnet mask, default gateway, and the IP of your name server set it up as a static IP, if you do not know the details use DHCP...

happy trails :)

[bdg1983]

Is your ethernet card up and running?

ifconfig - will tell you

Did Rogers give you a pci ethernet card?

The Mandrake online documentation looks quite good and helpful. Have you tried that?

http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/doc/72/en/user.html/draknet.html

You may also want to search through the vast amount of cablemodem threads in Hardware, Networking and Technical forums.