I have a cable modem, I dont know how to get on the internet with broadband. If anyone can help me please e-mail or something. I really need help, i dont know where to put anything (IP address, hostname etc.) Please help me.
Thanks

How is your cable modem connected? If its via a network card then you need to first add support for your network card to you kernel is its not already there, then you'll probably need to run dhcpcd to get an IP address from your ISP's DHCP server... If you post more details then, such as how the connection is made and what ISP you are using there may well be someone on the forum with the same (or close enough) setup who can give definate answers/pointers.

Have a look at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Cable-Modem/index.html

HTH

Jamie...

As Jamie said the Howto is your best launching point.


Have you setup an ethernet adapter on the linux box?

Do you have a DHCP client installed? (pump, dhcpcd, dhclient)

As a general rule, if your cable modem ISP uses the 'hostname' to identify/authenticate you on their network that you usually need to supply that info when you start the DHCP client. For dhclient it's in a configuration file and is a little intimidating. For dhcpcd is use this where cs###### is the hostname identifier give to you by your ISP and eth0 is the ethernet adapter that is using DHCP to get an address.

Does anyone here know how to get pump to do the same?


[Edited by mcleodnine on 06-12-2001 at 02:19 PM]

What distro are you using? If your not familiar with any thing at the command line you can use Linuxconf in the GUI, but hey, whats the fun of having a great command line if you don't use it...