[CLUE-Tech] cable modem question

[Jeffery Cann]

On Tuesday 09 July 2002 10:00 am, Mike Staver wrote:
> 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.

Your modem may have died.  Mine recently did and had the same symptoms.

Jeff