DHCP & Cable modem SOLVED

[Warren Togami]

Which cable modem do you have?  I have never had such problems on the
original fat white, and the skinnier black modem.  (The stupid cable modem
died on me SEVEN times.  Twice with smoke coming out the top, five times
with a weak signal.)

Have any of you folks seen the new USB cable modem that they are giving to
new subscribers?  My friend ordered RR last week, and they said they no
longer need to install NIC's because they have a modem that plugs straight
into the USB.  While RR via any ethernet card works great with Linux, who
knows if a driver exists for this USB modem?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris M. Rafael" <thecomputerguy at hawaii.rr.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 3:48 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: DHCP & Cable modem SOLVED


> Ok, if I would have taken earlier advice and
> pulled the plug on the modem, I would have
> saved 2 reinstalls w/2 different flavors.
>
> What someone told me, is RR caches the MAC
> address so if you switch cards without
> power cycling the modem, you will not get
> a response.  I needed to power cycle the
> modem when I switched back to my windows
> box, so this may be true.
>
> Mahalo for all the help.
>
> -chris