adelphia

[vlok stone]

doh! forgot the obvious. you'll have to reboot the
modem everytime you switch pc's. cable modems remember
the last device they saw and won't
give an address to another device until rebooted. if
you get a router you'll have to reboot for that to get
an IP. 


--- Anthony Corrice <acorrice at adelphia.net> wrote:
> Success!  Cycling power on the cable modem when
> switching from my Windows PC
> to the Linux PC did the trick.
> 
> Thank you to everyone for your help and suggestions.
> 
> And now, if I may impose on your generosity one last
> time....  Can anyone
> tell me how I go about configuring Kmail to set up
> an email account?  My
> first several attempts have met with failure.
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Andruczyk" <djandruczyk at yahoo.com>
> To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 11:23 PM
> Subject: Re: adelphia
> 
> 
> >
> > Is your PC, plugged directly into yopur cable
> modem?  If so,  power cycle
> it
> > (the cable modem).  On your 'puter where the
> network cable plugs in, make
> sure
> > it has a link lite on when the 'puter and modem
> are powered up and
> connected.
> >  If it does, run "dhcpcd eth0" as root on your
> linux box and see if it
> gets an
> > address.  If it does,  then you are all set..
> >
> > One reason why you may not get an address from a
> cable modem is if you
> have
> > more than one pc and no gateway device (linksys,
> firewall gateay or
> similar).
> > Most (I think all adelphia cablemodems) ONLY allow
> one mac address
> (residential
> > service) to pass data,  a power cycle of it is
> required before it will
> allow a
> > different MAC address to pass data across.
> >
> > If you're using a residential gateway (linksys,
> d-link, netgear or other),
> make
> > sure it is getting an address, and that it's DHCP
> server is enabled.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > --- Anthony Corrice <acorrice at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > > No luck so far.
> > >
> > > On bootup, I saw the following:
> > >
> > > "Setting up network interfaces
> > >
> > > eth0  (DHCP) 
> .....................................  no IP address
> yet
> > > .......... backgrounding
> > > eth1  (DHCP) 
> .....................................  no IP address
> yet
> > > .......... backgrounding"
> > >
> > > I ran /sbin/ifconfig and got this:
> > >
> > > eth0  Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 
> 00:E0:18:A0:32:13
> > >         inet6 addr:  fe80::2e0:18ff:fea0:
> 3213/64  Scope:link
> > >         UP   BROADCAST    NOTRAILERS   RUNNING  
> MULTICAST   MTU:1500
> > > Metric:1
> > >         Rx packets:207  errors:0  dropped:0 
> overruns:0  frame:0
> > >         Tx packets:10    errors:0   dropped:0  
> overruns:0   carrier:0
> > >         collisions:0   txqueueLen:100
> > >         Rx bytes: 14279  (13.9 Kb)    Tx bytes:
> 2820 (2.7 Kb)
> > >         Interrupt:9  Base address:  0xb000
> > >
> > > Then I ran ifstatus eth0 and got:
> > >
> > > "dhcpcd running
> > > eth0 not up"
> > >
> > > I would appreciate any suggestions for what to
> do next...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Tony
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "vlok stone" <vlokstone at yahoo.com>
> > > To: <nflug at nflug.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, September 12, 2003 9:22 PM
> > > Subject: Re: adelphia
> > >
> > >
> > > > 1. see if your getting an address
> > > >    type /sbin/ifconfig - this will tell you
> what
> > > > devices and addresses are seen.
> > > >
> > > > 2. if you're getting a valid address check to
> see if
> > > > you can ping by ip address, then by name( ei
> > > > yahoo.com)
> > > >
> > > > 3. if you hav an ip and can't ping it may be
> your
> > > > firewall. try shutting it down w/ this command
> as root
> > > > #/sbin/service iptables stop
> > > >
> > > > try to ping again. hope this helps. if not
> give us any
> > > > of the info from the above instructions and
> we'll
> > > > take it from there. this sound like a minor
> issue
> > > > ( firewall). but it could be DNS issues.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > --- Anthony Corrice <acorrice at adelphia.net>
> wrote:
> > > > > I am new to Linux and new to the User's
> Group.  I
> > > > > don't know what the appropriate method of
> asking for
> > > > > help from the User's Group is-  I hope it's
> ok to
> > > > > just throw out a question.
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anyone provide any information on how to
> access
> > > > > the internet via Adelphia Powerlink?  I just
> > > > > installed Linux for the first time on a new
> PC (SuSE
> > > > > Professional 8.2) and the installer seemed
> to
> > > > > recognize my ethernet card, but no luck
> getting
> > > > > online yet.
> > > > >
> > > > > Thank you,
> > > > >
> > > > > Tony
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
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