yet again, an @home question

[ndelo]

I know this question has been asked before, as a search of this forum will prove, but what the heck am I doing wrong in my @home setup. A bit of background: Distro mandrake 7.2 (though I had the problem in RedHat 6.2 also). ISP: comcast@home (in NJ).

I have tried the set up in both linuxconf and drakeconf.

hostname + domain is correct-- cc84455-a.blah.blah.home.com, chose dhcp

Now I have also tried setting a static IP as my IP has not changed in the past year. I setup nameservers, default gateway, netmask, the whole nine yards. An ifconfig eth0 shows my NIC running at the IP. I can ping myself, but everything else is unreachable. I have tried both dhcpcd and pump and neither does the trick. I have even tried to manually pump -i eth0 -h my_host_name, but I get:

Determining IP information for eth0 via pump...failed
Operation failed

What next? What am I missing? I've tried the howtos from LDP but nothing suggested there worked. I'm missing something obvious, I know it. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif

[This message has been edited by ndelo (edited 14 December 2000).]

[ndelo]

I checked out the NHF and followed it note for note, but still no luck. I also tried every suggestion found in other posts on the same topic.

[SlCKB0Y]

Do this:

cat /proc/modules
and
cat /proc/pci

and look to see if your network card is actually being recognised.

[ndelo]

Did the cat /proc/pci and sure enough my NIC is there. What next? This may sound strange, but I called @home for tech support to find out what things I need to pass the ISP to get my IP via DHCP, for example--host name, MAC address--and they said that I needed the @home provided hostname (understandable) but that I also needed to have a workgroup name, any workgroup name, didn't matter what, specified in my TCP/IP properties to use their service (they are talking windows here). Is this possible or were they just blowing smoke at me? The tech had to actually put me on hold to go run and get this answer. If so, can I pass the workgroup name via SAMBA?

[This message has been edited by ndelo (edited 15 December 2000).]