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

[Jay Sulzberger]

On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Thomas Joseph Re wrote:

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

This is not what the "RCA BROADBAND" connection box I see from
here does.  When the switch is set to "conect", four lights in
front skitter on and off at all times.  When the switch is set to
"no connect" the two lights in the middle of the row of four stay
on, without skitter, the two end lights stay off.

oo--JS.


>
> 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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