NIC Setup

[Ben Webb]

Lets take this one part at a time:

Squish wrote:
> 
> Since we are talking about NIC setups, I am having problems too.  I have
> been able to setup my NIC before, but I attribute that to luck from using
> linuxconf.  I upgraded to RH 6.2 in KDE mode.  I used insmod to initiate the
> NIC.  I put in the info for default gateway, DNS, subnet. I'm kinda shaky on
> what I put for hostname, domainname, and all that stuff since I know that
> RoadRunner gives that to you when a call is made to their DHCP daemon.  My
> question is that I can't remember where but I assume I have to put the IP
> for the DHCP daemon someplace.  When I initiate the card setup I am able for
> it to send packets on the network but eventually it times out and returns
> initialization errors from reading the s10network script in the /rc3.d
> directory.  Does anyone have an idea of my problem or do I need to provide
> more info?

If you are using DHCP (I have roadrunner too by the way) you should NOT
put anything in ANY of those fields.  They will all be set by the DHCP
server.  As far as putting in a dhcp server address, no you don't have
to. When you request an address (boot) your machine broadcasts a request
to find a DHCP server.

>     Since I'm talking about problems, here's another I ran into last week
> when setting 6.2 up. Before when I was using 6.1 I had no problem setting up
> Xwindows (gnome) in 1024x768 mode.  I have a 32 meg Riva TNT2 and a 19"
> ViewSonic A90.  When I upgraded to 6.2 I could only get it to run in 800x600
> mode.  Why? When setting vid card settings there are a series of radio
> buttons for amount of vid memory, 256K doubled up to 16MB.  The highest it
> would let me allocate was 2MB.  If I tested with 4, 8, or 16 MB my monitor
> would give an error of "out of range" (I guess their version of blue screen
> of death). I tried messing with the refresh defaults in the monitor
> identification in setup but I don't think that made a difference.  Anyone
> have any thoughts on this?  I admit to being naive to multisync monitors
> since I until recently started using them.

I don't use RH, but I would assume that there is an expert mode you need
to use.  As far as the "Out of range" message, this is generated by your
monitor, and indicates that you set the Horizontal and/or verticle synch
range to a value that your monitor will not support.  You should be VERY
happy that you have a newer monitor.  There was a day when monitors
would just switch to whatever mode you sent them, and if it was too far
out of range the CRT tube would quite literally explode (this is why you
see all of the warnings about severe hardware damage resulting from the
wrong values).

> Chris Mitchell
> "You know the sheriff has his problems too,
> he will surely take them out on you"
> Warren Zevon, "Mohammed's Radio"

Personally, I have always prefered
"I saw a werewolf drinking a pina colada at Trader Vic's
His hair was perfect."

Ben