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: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. > > > > > > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
