[ale] Cable Modem Strangeness On The Road

[Preston Boyington]

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
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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