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Switching from Windows to Linux ...
voidmain:
Boy I can't find much info on it. It appears Knoppix and Mandrake 9.0 use the 2.4.19 kernel where RedHat 8.0 uses 2.4.18 which is the only thing I can think of. It should use the "CDCEther" kernel module.
You might boot into RedHat and see if the module is indeed loaded with "# /sbin/lsmod | grep CDC". If it's not loaded try to load it with "# /sbin/modprobe CDCEther" (case sensitive). Also do a "# /sbin/ifconfig" to see what devices show up. You should have a "lo" device and an "eth0" device. It would also be nice to see your /var/log/messages file. That file would be too big to post in a message. You would just want to look for error messages containing "eth0" or "CDC" etc...
Sorry I'm not coming up with much. I am pretty sure if I had my hands on the machine I could get it working, knowing that it works in Knoppix and Mandrake. Again, the driver must have been updated in the slightly newer kernel is all I can figure.
Skull:
I checked "System Tools">"System Logs", and "dhclient", "ethO" were not found. I also checked /var/log/messages, and it said permission denied...
voidmain:
That's because you have to be root to view /var/log/messages. BTW, why don't you just mount your RH drive from Knoppix so you can just look through the file there. Then if you see any error messages you can cut and paste them into a message.
Oh, and it's eth0 (zero at the end, not capital "o").
[ November 18, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
voidmain:
Skull, would it be possible for you to try and follow my instructions for upgrading to kernel version 2.4.19 in this thread? I'm thinking it might get your Cable modem working via the USB connection. Since you have to boot Knoppix for network connection you will have to mount your root file system on your hard drive and download the kernel source there. Download it into the /usr/src (under the mount point you have your hard drive's root file system mounted) and then follow the directions (skipping the "wget" line).
Thanks, would be greatly appreciated.
[ November 19, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]
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