[ale] Cable Modem Strangeness On The Road

[hbbs at comcast.net]

Preston -

I wondered about the cables.  However - and this also knocks the MAC address theory out of the sky - Knoppix on the very same machine and cable won't work.  For the laptop, I used a cable of my own.  The cable that connects my nephew's machine to the sharkfin is clearly a store-bought (molded boot on connector).

- Jeff


> hbbs at comcast.net wrote:
> > I'm at the in-laws' in Columbus, GA where Knology supplies
> > the broadband.  My nephew's WinXP box is wired straight to a
> > 2com "sharkfin" cable modem, and its Ethernet card is set up
> > to use DHCP for obtaining IP address and DNS address.  The
> > weird thing is that if I boot to a Knoppix CD, I get no
> > connection, and my Linux laptop, which works just fine with
> > DHCP supplied locally in the house, also gets no connection.
> > Even if I set the IP address, gateway, mask, broadcast, etc.
> > manually, I get nothing - I can't even ping the cable modem
> > using the gateway address.  The only thing I can get is a
> > link light on the sharkfin (but I can't make it blink). What's up
> > with this? _______________________________________________
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> may not apply to you but recently i had a similar problem with several computers 
> at a small office.  it turns out that the previous person doing the admin had 
> made the cables and used a different pinout for the connectors.  after swapping 
> cables everything works fine.
> 
> preston
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