Hi. I need to worn that I got my system working without help
from my cable company or knowing anything about DHCP. My cable
company panics when I mention "Linux."
Just like you, I couldn't figure out pump. I tried dhcp-client and
couldn't figure it out either. Finally, I installed dhcpcd.
It has a script in /etc/init.d and a config file in
/etc/dhcpc.
I just added the line
OPTIONS='-h cc771963-a'
to the end of config. The single quotes are important.
All my cable company wants is my system to use the computer name they
gave me (cc771963-a) as the hostname.
That's what the line in the config file does.
The host name is just for DHCP. My system's host name is still "learning."
I couldn't get the network configured with the /etc/network/interfaces
file, but since the dhcpcd script runs during boot, it gets configured
then.
Hope this helps.
Kenny
On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 07:39:39PM -0600, Cheryl Homiak wrote:
> Hi, Kenny! No, I don't believe there's a shell script, and it doesn't
> appear that debian has put anything in explaining how to fit it in with
> their setup, though I could be overlooking. In fact, there isn't even a
> /etc/pump.conf though I certainly can create my own if I need to do so.
> There is a mention in the "interfaces" man page that you can use that file
> with pump, but then it goes on to say that some programs may be looking
> for a file other than the interfaces file anyway. I did look at using
> dhcp-client, but there was a lot in the dhclient.conf file that I wasn't
> sure about. For now it is working, but I eventually would like to get it
> better integrated into the system.
>
> Cheryl
>
>
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