[Gllug] Blueyonder Telewest cable broadband

[Xander D Harkness]

On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 13:09, Matthew King wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 12:31, Richenberg, Alan wrote:
> > I have bought a new Elinux machine from Evesham with Mandrake 9.1
> > installed. This is for home use on a standalone basis. The man from
> > Telewest is due to come soon to give me cable broadband. I've asked
> > for the network card option (thanks for the advice Xander). As a
> > novice I'd be grateful for advice on what, if anything, I need to do
> > pre-installation (I won't get any help from Telewest man on Linux) and
> > what the best security options are once the connection is up.
> 
> My telewest modem uses a bog-standard dhcp setup (well from the client
> point of view it's bog-standard)
Your network settings should be set to obtain IP automatically.  As you
have ordered the ethernet presentation it should just be a matter of
plugging your computer in.
> 
> If Mandrake is as user friendly as I'm led to believe it is, the default
> settings will get you online.
Does anyone know what the automatic update program for mandrake is?

Kind regards
Xander


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