Re: LUG: LUG@NCSU InstallFest Registration Form for James Barron - Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:13:42 -0500

Subject : Re: LUG: LUG@NCSU InstallFest Registration Form for James Barron

From : Chris Bullock <cgbullock@gmail.[redacted]>

Date : Sat, 19 Mar 2005 08:13:42 -0500

first off, are you using a broadband router? If not be sure that your
linux box is set to dhcp. when you plug in your cable modem, your pc
will get an IP address from Time-Warner/Earthlink and you are on your
way. Depending on what distro you are using you can look/edit the
file /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethX (X should be 0 if you
only have 1 network card). For dhcp to work it needs to look like
this:
DEVICE=ETH0
BOOTPROTO=dhcp
ONBOOT=yes
hope that helps.
Chris

On Sat, 19 Mar 2005 07:06:34 -0500, jdbarron@yahoo.[redacted]
<jdbarron@yahoo.[redacted]> wrote:
>
>
> Name: James Barron
> E-Mail: jdbarron@yahoo.[redacted]
> Distribution:
> Manufacturer: E-Machines
> Model Number/Name: E Monster 500
> System Type: Desktop
> CPU: Pentium III
> Video Card:
> Monitor: EMC Multisystems 765
> Sound Card:
> Ethernet Card:
> Modem:
> Printer: Deskjet 500 C
>
> Comments:
> The above is all the information I have available at this time.
>
> I particularly need to know how to connect a Linux system to the internet using Time-Warner Road-Runner service (thru Earthlink). (Failure to learn this is why I haven\'t already been using Linux for the past 5 years!)
>
> Interested In:
> Dual Boot: on
> Adding A second IDE Drive:
> ----------------------------------------------
> Remote Address: 65.87.170.247
> HTTP User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax)
>
>