[nylug-talk] road-runner + linuxOnly + wireless AP

[Thomas Joseph Re]

The "Cable" light flashes quite a while until it finally stableizes as fixed
green.

Tom

On 11/6/06, Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Thomas Joseph Re <tomjre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > A friend has RR which she was using with a WinPC until the WinPC
> broke.  I
> > tried connecting my Linux notebook to her cable modem, setting my
> ethernet
> > card for DHCP, and was not able to get an IP.  Doing IFCONFIG shows that
> the
> > eth0 is connected to something but no IP number and when I try to ping
> out I
> > get "network not available".
> >
> > Could it be that the CableModem needs some special reset to work with a
> new
> > computer?
> > I've tried leaving it off a couple of hours and trying again but no go.
> >
> > Ideas?
> >
> > Tom
>
> Tom, I am without useful speech before this question, mainly due
> to general ignorance, but I am especially useless because for so
> long all Debian instances I use run a DHCP system which works
> with Cable Companies' Net Connections, with all municipal LANs I
> have tried, and with just about all private and business LANs.
>
> Is the cable box on?  What do the four lights do?
>
> oo--JS.
>
>
> >
> >
> > On 11/6/06, Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Fri, 3 Nov 2006, Thomas Joseph Re wrote:
> >>
> >> > I am considering "RoadRunner/TimeWarner" ISP service, and will only
> have
> >> a
> >> > Linux notebook to use with this service.  Does anyone know if it is
> >> possible
> >> > to setup RR without a winbox?  Does it require special log-on
> software?
> >> >
> >> > Specifically, I'd like to buy a wireless Access Point and perhaps
> combo
> >> > cable-modem/wirelessAP, to connect to RR.  Anyone have experience in
> >> this
> >> > area???
> >> >
> >> > BTW, I was having trouble getting my wireless card to work using
> Redhat
> >> 3,
> >> > and upgraded to Ubuntu - it worked out of the box:).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > TJ
> >>
> >> I type this on a Standard Debian instance and I am connected to
> >> the Net via a Roadrunner/Time-Warner Cable Net Connection.  DHCP
> >> works out of both boxes.
> >>
> >> oo--JS.
> >>
> >>
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