[Fwd: cable modem installation woes] (fwd)

[gzf at gbr.msd.ray.com (Jerry Feldman {75562})]

I received this from a friend of mine who uses Red Hat with a Cable
Modem. I am not receiving email from discuss here today, so please forgive
if this is already answered.

I believe rcn works the same as mediaone, you need to send it your hostname
before it will respond, hence eth0 will fail on startup and not show up.
Modify /sbin/ifup and add to the dhcpcd line  a -h and the hostname
assigned by the cable company.  example: dhcpcd -h r2d2

I assume his references to "control panet" he means linuxconf
There are more drivers at red hat's ftp site, but some sort of driver must
be in place or eth0 would not have showed up. The linux install
program list a lot of ethernet controllers, he must have selected one?
> Wass wrote:
> > 
> > Greetings everybody,
> > 
> >         I'm a relative linux newbie, though I've been using various unices
> > for the past 5 years.  All this administration stuff is new to me.  I just
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