From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 4 14: 8:36 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (tan7.ncr.com [192.127.94.7]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FE7B37B401 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:08:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f54LBkm54867; Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:11:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chuckr@opus.sandiegoca.ncr.com) Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 14:11:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Chuck Rouillard To: hpandyatz Cc: Subject: FreeBSD with NTL cable modem (was: ) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 4 Jun 2001, hpandyatz wrote: > hello everyone, > > i am a completely new to FreeBSD, > > can anyone guide me how i can use my Terajet DOCSIS cable modem... or how to > use a cable modem with FreeBSD > > i have my nameserver information and all > > i use the NTL United Kingdom Cable Internet Service, > I checked the Linux Cable_Modem How-TO, > it has an entry for NTL Cable Modem service... but i dont know how to work > that out with FreeBSD, I spent a minute and found this FAQ which you should also find interesting. Assuming the FAQ represents reality, you only need dhcp (`/sbin/dhclient') to use FreeBSD with your connection. As for invoking DHCP, there is a good handbook section found here: http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/dhcp.html .cr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message