Geff wrote: > Well, after a lot of help from you'all at the instalfest yesterday, I > got home, and by screwing around, I was able to load my ubuntu 7.04. > For some reason it would install from the disk checker, rather than a > direct install, which we were unable to do at the tech book store. > After my initial happiness at *finally* getting linux on this old Dell > laptop, I tried to log into cox, and was unable to do so. I tried just > unplugging the ethernet cable, and plugging it in directly to my laptop,
Unplugging the ethernet cable: means moving the cable that was connecting CoxCableModem (CCM) to Mac so that it connects CCM to old_dell_laptop, I guess. Correct me if I am misreading here, but I think you were implying that initially you expected a wireless connection, and that's what you decided was not working? In more words, you expected the CCM to have a wireless access point in it -- are you sure of that? Also, do I understand that the CCM has only one ethernet output? I might guess from that evidence that the CCM does not have wireless. Does the CCM have a visible model number on it? If the CCM only has one ethernet output and no wireless, then it may well be that you need another component, a "residential gateway" box to go between between the CCM and your internal computers -- that is a common setup. Such gateways provide one connection to the CCM, and (often) 4 ethernet outputs to your computers, and sometimes (these days, almost always) a wireless access point as well. All the computers plugged into the ethernet ports and/or connected via wireless constitute your private network. The gateway provides routing and firewall functions, so sometimes those boxes are called routers or firewalls. > and then clicked on the firefox server, but it wouldn't log on...then I Perhaps others will correct me if I am wrong, but some cable modems may require a reset (eg, power cycle) if the connected pc is changed). So that could be why nothing happened when you plugged your dell into the CCM. I am assuming that simpler cable modems only allow one pc client at a time. If you do need a residential gateway, then you can get them these days for around $20-30 (if you watch for sales). Or if you ask here, you'd probably find some for sale cheap. In fact, I'll bring one to the meeting Thursday, and you can have it for $15 if you don't get a better offer. > had my ubuntu manual, and it said to go to System/Admin/Network and then > to click on "Wired Connection" then "Properties," but since it wasn't > hooking up with the dhcp, I tried a static IP address, but I wasn't Well, you can't just pick an IP address "out of the blue" and have it work. It might have worked it you set the IP to what the mac was using -- maybe you did? > getting anywhere at all. So I hooked ethernet back up to Mac Mini, and > thought I'd ask you all if you know maybe where to start, or even where > I might begin to get more info on this. > > I have done a google search, and tried a few of those ideas, but wasn't > getting anywhere....perhaps I should post this on the regular kplug > area, but I'm sure it is such a *rookie* question that it belongs here... Either place is fine, I think. Networking is slightly complicated, but great fun. It's one of the neatest things about Linux that one can learn a lot about networking without having to buy any expensive hardware or software or network training programs. That is, it's neat if you're interested in that stuff, of course. > > Anyway, have cable hookup to Cox high speed internet, and have had no > trouble hooking up thru ethernet to Mac, and also had wireless hookup to > Windows before on this same laptop I now have Ubuntu on... Ahh, I belatedly see this about a wireless connection -- so maybe my assumptions above were wrong -- I'll leave them for the benefit of the thought process. ;-) Umm, (..just to be sure..) when you previously had a wireless connection operational on this laptop, it was there; at home? rather than somewhere else? Maybe it might even have been connecting to some neighbor's wireless? In any case, there are some diagnostic steps that would be useful for checking out your wireless. Do you know what wireless chip it has in it? If it is a pccard, post the model. If built-in, post your computer model again (I remember it was a Dell 2600 -- but there was another, more specific model number on the bottom plate). > > Any help would be appreciated... Keep on asking.. :-) I see that Carl has already provided essentially the same information (better and more concisely said, to boot!). I'll send this anyway, just in case different words might add to the picture. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-newbie
