[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

[Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier]

I've gotten Mandrake's Firewall distro to use DHCP just
fine. I doubt that it's a great deal different for their
desktop distro. Slackware also works, but it might be a
little much for a beginner.

You need to tell us what kind of errors you're actually
getting as well as which version of Mandrake you're using.
What kind of setup do you have? A single computer that's
connected directly to the Cable Modem, or do you have
several computers connected to a LAN? Do you know for sure
that the Ethernet card connected to the modem works with
Linux and that the modules are being loaded?

I believe there are a few people who are using Mandrake,
so I'm sure someone on the list should be able to tell you
what's wrong.

Zonker
> I'm not too new to linux...I've been messing around with it for awhile but
> I still don't really know very much about it.  I've installed a lot of
> different distributions but I've been stuck with Mandrake for awhile now
> but the internet doesn't work.  I have that AT&T Cable Modem...it used to
> be the @home service but I think they may have changed it now.  Before, the
> static IP address used to work when put it in manually with the other
> distributions, but it doesn't work now with any of them (distributions).
> So, my question is, which distribution has the easiest DHCP configuration
> if they're not all the same?...I've never configured it before but now I
> guess I have to if I want to use the internet without crashing (I'm stuck
> on my windows partition for surfing, email, and the sort). Or probably a
> better question is which DHCP configuration distibution has actual DHCP
> that work...I've tried it with my Mandrake but keeps doing some kind of
> error as if it can't find an IP address at all.  Any help in plain english
> is wonderful.  Thanks a lot.  (I've already called AT&T, but they don't
> have support for Linux....bummer!)
>
> Steve
>
>
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