Re: your mail AKA @home, NICs and windows

[ben.konrath@utoronto.ca]

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.
>
>
>