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Please Help Me!!!!
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Name: newbie
Date: May 31, 2001 at 19:54:31 Pacific
Subject: Please Help Me!!!! |
Comment: I have set up my adsl connection and when i sart it this is what happens.
[root@trends] /root]# adsl-start
................TIMED OUT
[root@trends] /root]#
And thats it. I dont understand what I am doing wrong. On my hub the light is green and my nic is configured. Can some one please help me out with this problem.
when i also run netcfg and try to acivate eth0 interface under the proto bootp i get Determining Ip information for eth0...... Operation Failed.
When i do it for proto dhcp i get
Determining Ip information for eth0...... Operation Failed. When i do it for proto none i get
ipcalc: ip address expected
ipcalc: ip address expected
ipcalc: ip address expected
broadcast: Host name look up failure
netmask:Host name look up failure
When i run ifconfig to set up my netword card, it does not assign me an ip address. I use RedHat 7.0
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Name: Gethin
Date: June 6, 2001 at 20:41:42 Pacific
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Reply: (edit)Make sure that you set your hostname to the same as you were using under windoze. They use that to authenticate you to get an IP address via DHCP. I think! Type 'hostname' from shell and see if it's correct.
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