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

[Paul Robbins]

I have had intermitten problems with it grabbing and IP address, sometimes
it will grab a 192.168 IP address, so I run an ifdown, power off the cable
modem, then run an ifup and power the modem up right away. The linux box
tries to pull a DHCP address and the modem starts to come up looking to
distribute an IP address. This may take a few attempt, but usually solves
the problem of my linux box getting a RR IP address.

On 11/6/06, Thomas Joseph Re <tomjre at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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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