[CLUE-Tech] Easiest DHCP

[Steve]

I have Mandrake 7.2 but I'm thinking of upgrading to 8.1 or actually changing it
all together to Red Hat 7.1 like Chris...Red Hat is one distro I've yet to
try....imagine that.  As far as setup...I've had on static IP address through a
LAN before but I think I need to have it on a cable setting which is what I have
it on now with the DHCP setup.  I know for sure that the ethernet card works
because it's the same one I was using with the static IP address setup months ago
and it was still through AT&T's @home service.  It worked with SuSE but when I
tried installing SuSE to get the internet going it still didn't work.

I was looking closely during boot up and it said "Bringing up eth0 interface:
can't find dhcp client  [Failed]"   That and something else with my soundcard and
printer...but that's not as important.

This group is speedy...I type in an email and I get responses in 15 minutes
tops....This is awesome!

Steve


Joe 'Zonker' Brockmeier wrote:

> 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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