I just got myself a cable modem installed. It's a Motorola Surfboard. I did some googling(is that how you write it?) and found-out that my provider is using dhcp for our connections. So I tell myself what could be easyer to set up?
My nforce2 ethernet controller is compiled into my kernel. I did a netconfig and set it up dhcp. But when I run rc.inet1, it gives my ethernet card's mac address takes a couple seconds and then times out.
By the way my connection works fine in windows, I just boot and it works by itself. No authentication so I'm sure its actualy dhcp.
My operating system is slackware-current but before slack 10 came-out.
Did I miss something? Is there anything else to set-up? thanks for any help.

Try:

killall dhcpcd
ifconfig eth0 down
dhcpcd eth0
ifconfig eth0

of course, change eth0 to match your net card config.

I took that from: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ht=get+dhcpd+e

If that works, we can see then how init scripts are run and see why it's not hapenning automatically.

Hi there,

rc.inet1 only initializes the network hardware (modprobes the kernel module?), but for services such as dhcp you need to run rc.inet2 as well. If you look into the file /etc/rc.d/rc.M you will see this is done normally.

I tried gbonvehi's suggestion but when I do dhcpcd eth0 the command gets executed but never ends so I guess it is unable to aquire an ip adress.
Would installing a router between by modem and computer solve the problem?

What do you mean "never ends"? If it just returns a prompt w/ no output, that is normal behavior.
<deleted>. You probably don't need one unless you have multiple computers and want to setup your own private network.

It does not return to a prompt, it's like the command never ends. anyways it kinna sucks. What I meant by the router is that it might connect easier thru it. I don't know how but it seemed that when some of the guys in the thread liked in the first reply removed their routers the the same problem started. Anyone can shed light on this?

I think despite what your provider says, you need to run pppoe rather than just straight dhcp to get connected. You can use your update tool to grab rp-pppoe (or it's in slackware/n on the cdrom), you'll have to run adsl-setup and answer some questions to get it configured, then adsl-start. Some connections (like my Charter cable) only need dhcp, others need pppoe.

What I said earlier about router inbetween modem and internet was just plain wrong, I was confused. It should go _before_ the modem.

Thanks for your advice but I did try pppoe before even thinking about using dhcp. Actualy I didn't receive any information from the isp I read on another forum that it was the protocol used by that particular provider. Thanks anyways

I had a similar problem using a slackware variant called Topologilinux. My connection was recieved via dchp in windows, but the dchp server wouldn't work in linux. I tried manually entering my tcp\ip settings, but that also didn't work. I had luck with a gui program called netgo (do a google for it), I entered my info into it, rebooted, said go on netgo and it now works fine.