I Can't set up cable modem despite my perseverance

[althor]

Ello all, Im new to this forum

Here is my predicament. I have Mandrake 10.1 installed on my pc and am using SIS On-Board Ethernet. And a Surfboard 4100 External Cable Modem. I am a newb at linux . I want to eventually completely switch over everythign I do from windows to linux. (Well all that i can anyway)

I It seems mandrake sees my ethernet card but not ym modem maybe? I have tried usb and ethernet to no avail. I tried to get the CDCE module loaded (to use usb) but it just doesnt exist. Its not on the Install CD's. It wont load. I cant find it and it doesnt show in dmesg. I tried the drakconf to just setup through ethernet but I get no response from dhcpc. When I run dhclient it tries to connect but its not working. Im sorry im so vague.l Im a total newb. I have read at least 10 How-to's/tutorials on networking and cablemodems and ethernets etc. Not to mention the million man and linux tutorials. I have reinstalled 4 times. And spent a total of 16 man hrs on this. Im about to give up. Please any help is appreciated. Please tell me what info u need to assist if u can.

P.S. I have read the surfboard 4100 how to. prob have it memorized.

And why does ismod not do anything? Alot of tut's tell em to use it.

[lakerdonald]

You said that you tried running dhclient, but it doesn't work? What errors (if any) does it return?

[althor]

here what it says. And thx for the interest in helping.

If this helps any.
[root@localhost feleac]# ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:18:5E:1A:69
inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:18ff:fe5e:1a69/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:91 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:10 Base address:0xb000

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:10552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:10552 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:1055212 (1.0 Mb) TX bytes:1055212 (1.0 Mb)

And

[root@localhost feleac]# dhclient
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.1
Copyright 2004 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/products/DHCP

sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for sit0 not found.
/sbin/dhclient-script: configuration for eth1 not found.
sit0: unknown hardware address type 776
eth1: unknown hardware address type 24
Listening on LPF/sit0/
Sending on LPF/sit0/
Listening on LPF/eth1/
Sending on LPF/eth1/
Listening on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:5e:1a:69
Sending on LPF/eth0/00:e0:18:5e:1a:69
Listening on LPF/lo/
Sending on LPF/lo/
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
receive_packet failed on sit0: Network is down
receive_packet failed on eth1: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 4
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 19
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on sit0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 21
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
DHCPDISCOVER on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 9
DHCPDISCOVER on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 7
send_packet: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on lo to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
[root@localhost feleac]#

[Skid]

althor,

I have used SIS onboard NICs before. They work great. Use the Mandrake Control Center to set up your network. Mandrake has detected your card OK; it has been assigned eth0. When asked for 'Type of Connection', select LAN. Do not select Cable Modem. (Note: You may have to delete those other eth1 and sit0 network connections.)

HTH,
Skid