My cable companie's well not that organized. They don't give a damn about mac addresses or anything. That'd be too much work on their part. Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm sick of Winblows! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Konka" <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 8:55 PM Subject: Re: more network problems > If you plug your computer directly into the cable modem, it might not work > because your broadband company might need the mac address of the computers > network card. It might not need that but here in Boston, my cable company > would need the mac address of any port that the cable modem is connected > directly to in order to get access to the web. > > Peter Konka. > > At 07:22 PM 10/10/02 -0500, you wrote: > >Have you tried a direct connection to your cable modem yet? If that > >didn't work, are you sure DHCP is installed? Try this as root. "dhcpcd > >eth0." What happens? Any errors? I am almost sure that either your > >router isn't cooperating with this computer for whatever reason, or you > >are missing something like dhcpcd. How did you install Slackware? Did > >you use the full install or a prompted install? > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Speakup mailing list > >Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > >http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
