Dear Linux folks,
I seem to have lost my Linux NTL broadband connection. I use Fedora Core 1
nowadays. It was working fine for ages but died two days ago.
I am using a laptop running Windows XP and got it to hook up to my cable
modem OK and emailing you from it now.
I wondered if maybe the network card had died on the linux PC. I guess the
chances of this happening are pretty low and it is likely to be some problem
I have created with a wrong IP address number or a wrong DNS number etc that
has cocked things up. Maybe NTL have changed something that has messed
things up that I didn't know about.
If you go into the network configuration tables window box then there is a
space where you can specify the primary DNS and secondary DNS for NTL (I
assume) whatever that means. I found numbers from the NTL website (old
pages) to bung in there. I was using 194.168.4.100 for the primary DNS and
194.168.8.100 for the secondary DNS. Maybe they changed these on me. Who
knows.
What should I put in if anything for the DNS search path? What exactly does
it do?
What hostname should I use?
I just have the set top box which is a cable modem and runs the TV. I don't
have a seperate router. Do I need to put anything in the route window box
in the config set up?
If I had a network card hardware failure how could I check for that?
Thanks for your help,
Michael Fothergilll
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