dhcp help requested

[Scott Howell]

Folks I spoke to a friend of mine and he had a similar problem and it was 
the 3com 503 card. It apparently had something to do with the driver for 
the card not being able to I think transfer something that the dhcp server 
wants. I may try loading another module for the other card in the box which 
is a pci card. I'm also going to call the cable folk and find out more info 
on the dhcp server.

tnx


At 02:30 PM 9/24/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Ay Kenny, Adelphia apparently uses the mac address of the cable modem. I 
>need to check to be sure they got that and if this is the case I then 
>probably should make sure I know what is to be transmitted if anything. 
>Thanks for the tip.
>
>Scott
>
>
>At 09:26 AM 9/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>>Hi, Scott.  In my area, Comcast uses client identifier instead of the MAC
>>address of the network card to get an IP.  Comcast tech support calls it
>>"your computer name."  This isn't the host name of your system, it's a
>>string sent by your DHCP client.  It's been a long time since I used
>>them, so I'm not completely sure, but I don't think pump would let me
>>send the string.  Dhclient and dhcpcd did work for me.
>>
>>Good luck and hope this helps.
>>           Kenny
>>
>>On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 08:39:53AM -0400, Scott Howell wrote:
>> >       Hello Speakup friends,
>> >
>> > Well I'm temporarly using my work E-mail address until I get my cable
>> > connection working. Therefore I have a question regarding the Debian 
>> Potato
>> > installation. I'm using the disks off the ftp site and from what I can 
>> tell
>> > I get to the point where I'm to configure the network, but I'm having some
>> > problems. I have a cable connection whcih uses dhcp and from what the 
>> cable
>> > company tellss me they don't support anything but windows, but well gee
>> > does this surprise anyone, however, there are folks using Linux with their
>> > service. This leads me to believe their dhcp implementation is normal so
>> > all should work.
>> > I have a 3com card its an older isa 10mbps model that uses the 503 driver.
>> > When the module was installed there were no errors and if you type 
>> ifconfig
>> > it gives me some basic info about the card like the irq and so on. Of
>> > course it does not provide any ip or other info as one hasn't been 
>> assigned
>> > to it. So I let the installer run pump to obtain the ip address and so on
>> > automatically and it returns a message after about 20 seconds or so 
>> stating
>> > the configuration failed. I can't get any useful information as to why it
>> > failed. I tried running pump by hand to see if anything of value would 
>> come
>> > from it and yet nothing. Does anyone have any suggestions I might try? It
>> > appears as far as I can determine that the cable connection is working or
>> > so all the lights on the cable modem would indicate this and the network
>> > card worked fine previously in this box when I had dsl.
>> >
>> > tia
>> > Scott
>> >
>> >
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