[wellylug] Saturn Cable Modem Setup

[Damon Lynch]

Hi,

If it is anything like my cable setup - which it probably is, you can
simply run the DrakConnect from the Mandrake Control Centre.  Launch the
wizard.  Choose LAN when it has detected the card (it did detect it,
right?)  Ignore the cable option - that is for those countries with a
different way of connecting with cable.  Then when you hit next put in
the right values for DNS, IP, gateway, and netmask.  That *should* work,
unless something has become seriously messed up on the system.  

One easy way to see diagnostic output from DrakConnect is to run it from
the command line, as root.  It is called drakconnect

Unless there is a problem in the setup, the wizard in 9.1 should take
care of things for you.  You just have to choose LAN and not cable.

Damon

On Thu, 2003-05-22 at 15:22, pmilne at paradise.net.nz wrote:
> Hi Damon
> 
> > Did you resolve this problem?  Should be as simple as setting up a LAN
> > connection.
> Thanks for your interest, and thanks to all others for responses.  
> Unfortunately I do not have a LAN to play with, so my networking 
> knowledge is limited.
> 
> Thus far:
> 1.  Works OK under Windows on same machine so NIC 'card' (on 
> motherboard - standard 3C905B type), cabling and information ex 
> Saturn OK.  Deriving the information needed for Linux but not needed 
> for Windows seems no problem.
> 
> 2.  Linux detects NIC ok when booting up.
> 
> 3.  ifconfig shows that lo and eth0 are set up as expected, lo pings OK.
> 
> 4.  DNS information appears to have found itself a home OK among 
> the /etc files
> 
> 5.  route  command (no parameters) shows that no gateway has been 
> set up, and attempts to set one up using    route add -net etc is 
> rebuffed (  SIOCADDRT: Invalid Argument ).  This is despite trying to 
> set up a gateway via the installation procedure or Cable Modem 
> Providers HOWTO (Debian), or control panel (Mandrake).
> 
> 6.  Presumably ifconfig and route commands should be executed by 
> start-up scripts but locations and names in /etc seem to differ between 
> distributions (and even versions).  Following the Cable Modem 
> Providers HOWTO 'by rote' for the Saturn - Debian example should 
> work, but perhaps things have changed between Slink (2.0) and 
> Woody (3.0).
> 
> 7. Presumably, once things are correctly configured for bootup, then it 
> should be possible for 'Konquerer' or other browsers to access the Net 
> once a user logs in.
> 
> I will swot up more on networks and keep persevering (at least the 
> knowledge gained should help me set up a server).
> 
> Thanks again for comments.
> 
> Regards
> Peter
-- 
Damon Lynch <damon at asianreflection.com>