DHCP & Cable modem SOLVED

[Nelson Garcia]

Unless there is something else new, what I have seen is a USB-to-Ethernet
connector that takes the place of your NIC card.  The modem is still the
same so you can ignore the USB adapter and plug your own Ethernet NIC card
straight to the modem.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at maile.hi.net>
Sent: Monday, June 25, 2001 07:59 AM
Subject: [luau] Re: DHCP & Cable modem SOLVED


> 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
>
>
>
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