On 28-Jul-06 Michael Fothergill wrote:
> 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
Not being a cable (let alone NTL) user, I can't offer help based
on any experience. However, there's a pretty comprehensive help
resource in "Robin Walker's Cable Modem Pages" at:
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/cmtips/
which has a lot of NTL-specific info (highlighted in green where
relevant). Maybe you'll find a clue there!
As to testing whether there's a problem with your network card:
1. Once Linux has finished setting up its network and inetd
resources on boot-up, you should see the LED on the card
(aSSUMING IT HAS ONE) glowing and/or pulsing on & off.
If that doesn;t happen, then you have a problem -- Linux setup
or hardware.
2. If that bit seems to be working, then you can try connecting
the Linux computer to another computer, both with IP addresses
in the same range, and seeing whether you can ping from one
to the other. If that works, you should be OK on the setup
and hardware fronts.
Good luck!
Ted.
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