On Thu, Aug 16, 2001 at 04:11:48PM -0700, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote: | I just carried over another windoz desktop (wife sure liked seeing this!) and | fired up win98. The NIC on this box is part of my lan so I removed the lan | settings from the nic and set them up as I did on the lap top. Without | shutting off the cable modem, I was able to gain my ip and was on the net | with it. | | I will 'assume' this means the MAC isn't an issue - that the cablemodem and | @home dont care about the nic in use. So, this means that I can get two | differnt windoz boxes to work but sadly, not debian at this point.
At least you aren't pulling your hair out while it is the ISP's fault :-). | I am lost in this netherworld at this point. I noticed you were using pump to try and get the dynamic IP, etc. How about trying dhcpcd? I haven't used pump myself, but dhcpcd is working well on my ADSL connection. -D