Re: Cable modem

["Alan Mead" <amead8695 home com>]

David,

There seems to be great variability between (and even within) cable
providers but for me, using @home, the set-up has been identical to that
used to connect to any Ethernet network.  Is that what you did?  It sounds
like you did; in what way does "nothing work"?  What can you ping?  Did you
get a manual with the modem?  Does it seem to be working?

You may wish to peruse what's available on the web, such as:

http://www.kernel-panic.org/user_files/cox.at.home.html
http://www.linux.org/docs/ldp/howto/Cable-Modem/isps.html
http://www.google.com/linux?site=search&restrict=linux&hl=en&safe=off&q=cox+
cable+linux+not+working+-alan

There are a lot of things that can go wrong but given this description it's
hard to say what to do.

You may find it easier to first try to connect using a Windows machine, if
you have one.

-Alan Mead

----- Original Message -----
From: "David Archer" <dmadance hotmail com>
To: <redhat-list redhat com>
Sent: Friday, August 24, 2001 4:40 PM
Subject: Cable modem


> I have just had installed a cable modem. I have had no luck using it. I
have
> been given a static IP, and the modem is a Com21 modem. Any good
references
> or suggestions?
>
> I have done most of the obvious things, I set the gateway, DNS servers, ip
> of the NIC, and netmask to the values provided by COX cable. Nothing
works,
> and customer support from COX is worse than useless. Help!
>
> thanks,
>
> David Archer