NTL USB Modem probs FC2

[NBZ]

Hi

I have a NTL USB modem on my pc and with FC1 i was able to install it with some messing around. It worked under bootp NOT dhcp iirc.

When I installed FC2, it totally Mashed my system up (dual boot win xp).

Now under Fedora core 2 the modem is detected as a network/system device on the hardware browser, but not undet Network device control.

If I set up CDCEther at eth0, it says device not found with both dhcp AND bootp.

During boot, my modem is detected BEFORE the networking bit starts (USB light comes on).

Had a good look around but can't seem to find an answer.

What is even more annoying is that Knoppix (with kernels 2.4 & 2.6) seems to auto detect it USING RED HAT SOFTWARE TO AUTOMATICALLY CONFIGURE IT! So there is an answer.

Any Ideas? Is it possible to in some ways take accross thje knoppix settings ( without installing knoppix of course...)

PS I aint got no ethernet or spare pci slots so dont say buy an ethernet card please.

[NBZ]

whilst looking at which programs I had installed, I found out dhcpd was not installed. Now I have from the FC2 CD, but when I run it it says there is no dhcpd.conf found in /etc.

Any Ideas? Someone please post

[James]

Do you know what chipset your modem has? if it is a globespan chipset i may be able to help.

[NBZ]

It is an ambit usb modem. No idea what else.

with FC1 I did not have to install any driver etc so dont think there is a problem there. I used USB CDCEther driver, and now am trying to figure out if I can use dhcpd in any way, as it may work.

The main problem is that under hardware browser the modem is present under network device as well as system device.

In network device control, at eth0 when i click on activate says device may not be present.

[NBZ]

Internet is working!!!

I installed dhcpd from the installation cd's, and in /etc created dhcpd.conf

All I put in it was:

ddns-update-style interim;

After reboot I tried to run dhcpd from command line but it said it was not configured for eth0.

I went to internet config wizard and under ethernet was an option for usbnet (that was not there before!). Using that I am now online (after reboot).

w00t