On 16 Aug 2001 19:38:33 -0400, dman wrote: > 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.
I may also go back to dhcpd from pump since pump seems unable to ever renew it's lease. Every six days I fall off the net because of what I think now is pump. I'd give it a shot. --mike
