Re: your mail AKA @home, NICs and windows
I believe that our cable modems will only work with the nic that @home gave
you, hardcoded to the MAC as I recall.... of course I could be wrong..
Rich
----- Original Message -----
From: <ben.konrath@utoronto.ca>
To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Tuesday, September 12, 2000 9:38 AM
Subject: Re: your mail AKA @home, NICs and windows
> Quoting Krzys Majewski <majewski@cs.ubc.ca>:
>
> > Uh ok this is a braindead reply but did you try
> turning off
> > the modem for a few minutes. I had a hard time
> getting my new
> > machine to work with cable, it suddenly worked on the
> third
> > network card (a 3c905b). -chris
> >
>
> yep ... thats what i meant by power cycling the modem,
>
> b
>
>
>
> > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000 ben.konrath@utoronto.ca wrote:
> >
> > > hey
> > >
> > > i have been trying to get 2.2 (i386) working with
> > > rogers @home cable modem service. the problem that i
> > > keep encountering is that i can only get on-line
> when i
> > > am using a NIC that has been used with the cable
> modem
> > > in windows. if the card is used elsewhere or the
> cable
> > > modem is used with another card then i get the
> > > following results:
> > >
> > > -eth0 configured correctly with all the static info
> > > i
> > > put in correct (ip, gateway, netmask etc.) and > >
> > > correct driver
> > > -when i try to ping an ip (my gateway or any other
> > > active ip) i can see the send and receive lights on
> > > the cable modem active, but i get 100% packet lose
> > >
> > > my assumption under this situation is that the ping
> > > gets out and back in to the modem (hense the send
> > > AND receive lights) but doesn't actually make it to
> > > my machine.
> > >
> > > i have tried this set up with 3 separate computers
> > > and 5 different NICs (SMC, dlink, 3c900b, 2
> > > sohoware) but all have the same results.
> > >
> > > i have tried to "power cycle" the modem but that did
> > > not work as well.
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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