I use AT&T Broadband here in TX, and they don't seem to care about mac addresses either. William On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote: > 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 at cwareonline.com> > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
