[CLUE-Tech] cable modem question

[Mike Staver]

No, the modem wasn't new - but the motherboard was, so I reinstalled the
OS's like I always do, and named the computer their required AT&T name,
and just expected it to work like it always did.  Under windows, I used
their stupid USB connection, and under linux I hooked up a generic PCI
nic into the ethernet port on the modem, and I got link lights with the
cable, and when the USB was connected under windows, windows told me it
was connected and I had the little icon on the taskbar that shows the
traffic.  When I would try to renew the ip address, the modem would
blink like crazy and the PC Link light was on like usual.  I just don't
trust AT&T's authentication scheme I guess, I tried rebooting the cable
modem and the computer numberous times with no luck.  The reason I had
to reinstall is because the old board went bad about a week ago, so I
found some cheap pricewatch gear and built a new box, so I couldn't tell
you the last time the modem worked, but the last time it was used was
about a week ago.

tipsrules99 at attbi.com wrote:
> 
> Mike:
> 
> Is it a new Cable modem? I was on last night without any
> problems on my Slackware 8.1 box and a my Red Hat 7.3
> box. I am using AT&T.
> 
> Mike Benavides
> 
> > Sorry to bother the list with this question, but has anyone had any
> > troubles with their AT&T cable modems recently?  I set up a box, and the
> > OS did not matter - I could not get modem to assign a dhcp address to
> > the computer last night, and I was hoping that it was possible that AT&T
> > was just down or something.  If not, I'm out of ideas.  I even had the
> > computer name set to the one they prefer the c169338-a number or
> > whatever it was, I don't remember now.  Then I simply had the computer
> > using dhcp to get an address from the modem with no success.  Tried Red
> > Hat 7.3 and Windoze XP.
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                                 mstaver at globaltaxnetwork.com