[ale] Problem connecting to internet

[Nathan J. Underwood]

I had Adelphia years ago (now, I'm a proud Speedfactory user :-D ), and 
had to use pump to get an IP every time I rebooted.  When the box was 
booting, and got to my outside nic, it would always fail.  If I waited 
until it booted, logged in, and ran pump (I believe the syntax was pump 
-i eth0 or something).  I'm not sure if SuSE comes with pump, but I'm 
pretty sure that dhcpcd has a similar option.  Hope this helps.

Trey Sizemore wrote:

> I moved recently and now have an Adelphia cable high-speed connection to
> the internet.  I previously had a cable internet connection as well, but
> with a different provider.  My linux boxes are set to get their IP and
> nameservers via DHCP, but for some reason, I'm unable to do so with the
> Adelphia cable connection.  The initial setup of the service was done
> (as required) on a Windows machine (my Dell Latitude D600 laptop) and I
> can connect (as I am now) via Windows to the internet.  This laptop is a
> dual-boot setup and my SUSE 9.1 *can't* seem to get an IP or nameservers
> and connect.  The 'ifconfig' command shows the eth0 interface with some
> Rx and Tx packets, but no IP address and pinging outside sites like
> yahoo.com and linux.com says they can't be found.
> 
> The adelphia tech support says they can't really help, but are sending
> someone later today to check the modem (although, again, it works fine
> with Windows).  I wanted to see if anyone else on list had experience
> with Adelphia or knew of something I might try.  
> 
> Also, I've tried to connect with the cable connection and my linux
> desktop with the same results (or lack thereof).  These machines were
> connecting with the other cable provider as recently as 5 days ago and
> I've not changed anything on the machines.
> 
> Thanks for any tips.
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