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Article #396Re: Getting cable internet to initialise correctly.....
From: Mark W. Stroberg
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 05:25
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 05:25
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Matthew:
Search for a file called "ifup" on your hard drive. Edit this file,
and replace the call to pump near the bottom of the file with the call
to dhcpcd exactly as it works for you. Your network settings should
configure themselves at bootup then. Let me know if this works.
Mark W. Stroberg
On Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:46:12 +1100, "Matthew McKernan"
<mckernan@optushome.com.au> wrote:
>I have set up my NIC in Red Hat 7.0. That works fine. I am at a point where
>I can type the following and I get access:
>
>/sbin/dhcpcd -d -I coXXXXXX-a eth0
>
>Where coXXXXXXX-a is my login ID. That all works fine. Where I have the
>problem is on bootup. During the boot though linux has a look at eth0 and
>then after about 30 seconds it comes up as failed. So it doesn't connect to
>the net at that point. In past linux set ups some how I managed to get it to
>connect at that point. Suggestions?
>
>As a temporary work around I just added the line above (/sbin/dhcpcd -d -I
>coXXXXXX-a eth0) to the end of rc.d and that seems to do the trick for now.
>I would prefer to have it set so that during boot when eht0 is checked it
>can connect then. Doing it that way would also reduce boot times a fair
>bit!!!
>
>
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