Great, Wai -- I already had the letter drafted so off it goes!

I think we ought to start a new thread. I'll do it now.

I have web space but I'm not using it yet. I have in the past used WSFTP-LE under windows, so I'll do it from my "other" partition! Actually I still have all my e-mails on Windows 98SE because I'm still learning Linux. My ambition is to be able to do without Windows once lack of backwards compatibility and support renders Windows 98SE redundant. I will NOT pay Microsoft for another operating system!!! Especially one I can't control like Windows XP!

Anyway, as you have ntlworld, you have some web space also, don't you?

DAVE

New post at
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...threadid=47782

hi, linux experties

I need your help for setting up the network config. I bought Suse 8.0 in Jan, but till now I still can not manage to set up network config. I have a ntl USB cable modem (Ambit USB Cable Modem to be precise), I tried nearly everything to setup the network config it just not work, and after I send hundreds of e-mail to Suse help line, they could not give me the satisfied answer. But finally I found you guys, I have seen some of your threads, specially wai's about how to solve the problem for ntl, I followed his procedure but there are sth turn out that I do not understand. First after I setup the network config from control center and setup each field with the information that I get from windows
hostname ZHILIN
DNS server 194.168.4.100
physical address 00-D0-59-E9-CC-39
IP:81.101.208.229
Gateway:81.101.208.254
DHCP:213.105.224.21

and I could find the eth-usb-0 hotplug during the start of system, but as I use >ifconfig eth-usb-0
the thing turns out sth else,like this
eth-usb-0: error fetching interface information: Device not found

I have no idea why, the system seems can not fetch my hardware address

when I tried >ifconfig -a
this is the display
lo Link encap:Local Loopback

inet addr:81.101.208.229 Mask:255.0.0.0

inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host

UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1

RX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0

TX packets:48 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0

collisions:0 txqueuelen:0

RX bytes:4104 (4.0 Kb) TX bytes:4104 (4.0 Kb)

would you guys who can help me why the system did not get the usb cable modem? and how would I suppose to setup the physical address for this modem!

by the way thank you for everyone that pay attention on this thread!

and i start a new thread in http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...462#post250462 so would you have a look and help me to solve the problem!

thanks

Now I think the problem is not how to setup my network config, my problem is how the system can find my usb modem address, becuase I check the system, there is no eth-usb-0 such device exist, so the system could not find the vilid interface everytime, therefore it fails to reach the correct point.

in case to help you understand what I said, this is the information I can provide from my suse linux.

dmesg | grep -i usb

usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs

usb.c: registered new driver hub

usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 13:56:25 Sep 13 2002

usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd400, IRQ 10

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1

hub.c: USB hub found

usb-uhci.c: USB UHCI at I/O 0xd800, IRQ 10

usb-uhci.c: Detected 2 ports

usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 2

hub.c: USB hub found

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/1, assigned device number 2

usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver

usb.c: USB device 2 (vend/prod 0xbb2/0x6098) is not claimed by any active driver.

uhci.c: USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver v1.1

hub.c: USB new device connect on bus1/2, assigned device number 3

usb.c: USB device 3 (vend/prod 0x7ab/0xfc03) is not claimed by any active driver.

usb.c: registered new driver acm

acm.c: v0.21:USB Abstract Control Model driver for USB modems and ISDN adapters

Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

usb.c: registered new driver usb-storage

scsi0 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices

WARNING: USB Mass Storage data integrity not assured

USB Mass Storage device found at 3

USB Mass Storage support registered.

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1952

usb.c: registered new driver serial

usbserial.c: USB Serial support registered for Generic

usbserial.c: USB Serial Driver core v1.4

usb-uhci.c: interrupt, status 3, frame# 1095

hope you could find sth that can correct the problem, thanks!

I don't really know how SuSE works. Is there some kind of control panel (in Mandrake it's the control center) where you can tell the system to use CDCether for your internet connection?

From your printout from dmesg | grep -i usb, this does not appear to have been done.

Remember the solution that Wai found was for when you had your system connecting to the internet, but dropping the connection later. Your problem seems to be one of getting the connection up in the first place.

You probably need to post in a SuSE thread or on a SuSE users area to get your modem set up...

Sorry!

DAVE

I've tried installing a copy of suse onto my machine,
but failed to get as far as you did. I was using 8.1, and had problems connecting to Xserver. Probably problem with my machine not having been dynamically assigned an ip address, don't know. I could log on the safe mode (without window manager), however. I noticed during boot seq that it has recognised the USB port with mesg
hot swappable ( net pci usb) ...
and notice that my interface for ethernet card has been also been recognised and activated.

This is process is very similar to Redhat and I needed to do something manually myself to set up the usb. You would need to find a network application GUI - if SUSE has it and remove/deactivate (may not be necessary but good for testing) your ethernet interface (if you have a network card), it may be called eth0 and then assigned your usb port with an appropriate interface and then activate it. The fact that your interface name is not in ifconfig implies that it has not been registered as an interface!! You need to find someway of registering it.

Sorry I couldn't help you more on this, and well done for getting suse linux up and running, but it is probably not much use if you can't connect to the web.

The annoying thing is that you can search the web and test at the same time.

Alternatively, you could try the ethercard way, but first you
should try to get it working on window, I did not have much success in it however. Installation CD failed to re-registered with NTL. Probably all you have to do is phone and inform them that you have an additional mac address. (I personally have not done this).

I'll probably play with suse a bit more on the weekend and then go back to redhat.

let us know should you ever find a solution.

Wai