Michael Fothergill wrote:
I use NTL cable and have a netgear router in between which handles the connection to the modem, hence no need to worry about DNS etc. I have just upgraded to a wireless router so I have my old wired router boxed at my desk. If your interested mail me off-list :)> >On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:20:48AM +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > Dear Debianists, > > >> > > I have now installed Etch AMD64 RC1 successfully on my new AMD64 box. > > > The only problem I have is that the internet connection isn't working.> > >> > > My old box is an AMD Duron 1200 Mhz 32 bit machine which is running Etch> > > i386. The internet connection works fine on it. > > > > > > I use NTL broadband cable. > > > >what is NTL? is that a provider? > > Yes it is. > > >> > > I have used the old box to help me get information about my internet> > > connection. > > >> > > If you look in the network tools window you get information for eth0> > > > > > IP address. > > > > > > It is 86.22.11.90 and this is NTL. > > > > > > I checked with the whoami tool. > > > > > > I also looked in the network configuration box in the network admin> > > icon. I found that the DNS server numbers for NTL are 194.168.4.100 and> > > 194.168.8.100. > > > > > > >[snip ifconfig output.] > > > > > > >Probably you need something like > > > >auto eth0 > >iface eth0 inet dhcp > > I will try this. Thanks. >> P. S. Sorry for replying to your personal email address and not the list.It is important you power cycle the cable-modem. Exceptionally important.I followed your cable modem power cycle routine. I had to go in the network admin box in Etch and then put the DNS number for NTL in there and also click eth0 and configure it. I set it to DHCP and I activated it. It was not activated by the OS automatically. I then fired up firefox and it found the ntl broadband hookup page.I then put the PID and password in it. I added a new name for the new machine on the NTL web site. I then rebooted the machine and the cable box as NTL requires.When I rebooted the internet connection was still not working. I went in the Etch network admin box and checked on the eth0 configuration. It was activated. But I noticed that the DNS numbers had both been changed to new ones. I added the two old NTL DNS numbers in case this was part of the problem so I now had four DNS numbers in there.....I then rebooted the cable modem and the new machine and now the internet connection is working.Don't ask me why.I guess if I would get another new box in the future and tried a net install on it then I would have to reboot the cable box in the absence of the old box and when the installer asks you if you want to manually configure the internet connection you would have to go in there with the DNS numbers etc and fart around repeatedly turning the cable and PC boxes on and off as many times as it took to get at the NTL hookup page and then have the PID and password ready, Then you would reboot and repeat the process until you had a successful link to the debian mirror sites....Comments appreciated. Regards Michael Fothergill
I hope this doesn't offend you or other list members. HTH Wackojacko