On Thu, 15 May 1997, Harmon Sequoya Nine wrote: > > Hi all. > > A "cable modem" has just been installed on my computer, and I would > like to use it under Linux: > > 1) The card that was installed on my computer is a 10base-T (twisted pair) > ethernet card -- "Intel 82557-based PCI Ethernet card". Does the Linux kernel > currently have a driver for this card? On a fresh install of Debian, I did > not see a driver for this card listed in the driver configuration portion of > the install ... > > 2) The cable-modem hookup supports dynamic IP-address assignment (though > I'm supposed to get the same IP address each time the modem powers on). > Is there a way to get the Linux ethernet support to "read" its IP address, > say, at boot time?
The question is: Is the cable modem using standard ethernet. Sometimes Intel chipsets are used in nonstandard ways, such as reduced clock rates. This is what I can tell you about Ethernet compatibility. I can boot a given machine to Linux, win3.x, or w95 and use TCP/IP over Ethernet. With all 3 operating systems I can access the internet via another Linux box which has a modem and is configured to serve as a gateway/router or expensive Cisco routers with T-1 bandwidth. In both win3.x and win95 the standard Microsoft drivers are used. So if the cable modem is usable with standard Microsoft drivers, it will probably work with Linux. If there is no Linux driver for the card, try a card that is widely supported. I paid $18 for new ethernet cards last year. If you always get the same IP address, then it is static. Write it down and use it as your machine IP for Linux. +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Paul Wade Greenbush Technologies Corporation + + mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.greenbush.com/ + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ + http://www.greenbush.com/cds.html Linux CD's sent worldwide! + +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
