Ambit USB Cable Modem setup on Fedora Core 2 test 2

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Date: 04/26/04 

Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 14:46:36 +0100

Hi all,

I know many postings have been made regarding configuring a Cable
modem on a linux distro but I've been searching through the archives
& al but to no avail with something that gets my internet
working.

My Cable modem is connected to my PC using the USB port. I do NOT have
a network card in my PC.

I've just installed Fedora Core 2 Test 2 and can't get dhclient to get
an IP address.
My Cable modem has the USB light on which means the USB port is
active. when I do a dhclient, both my send and receive lights flash
like a christmas tree, but I can;t get an IP address from my ISP.

I tried the rmmod acm (which failed cos it said it can;t find acm in
/proc/modules - but I'm not too bothered about this as it only just
removes it from the kernel and it's not part of it at the moment as
far as I know).
then did a modprobe usbnet, which return me to the prompt without any
error message (so I assumed it worked). then running dhclient fails
to get an IP add. well.. it does comes back with DHCPFETCH and gets a
valid IP from my ISP but it won;t accept it.

when I do a ifup eth0, it comes back saying: ifup eth0 configuration
for eth0 not found.
I've also tried to ifconfig eth0 up, and also it returns to the prompt
with no errors, it makes no difference whatsoever.
I found a posting somewhere that says to do the following:
ls -l ifcfg-eth0 eth0
but that fails too.. I had a look at /dev and it contains no mention
of eth0 (not does it contain anything about ifcfg-eth0).

when I do an ifconfig -a, I get an result for local loop (lo), one for
eth0 (even though I don;t have a network adapter, but I suspect eth0
is bound to usbnet in my case) and I get an entry for sit0 (IPv6).

I'm at loss.
Please some help.. or point me to URLs to get more help.
Cheers,
M. 

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