Yes, that would be appreciated if you could. Please reply
if I need to contact you offlist to pay for any shipping,
costs, etc.
As a newbie, could you point me in the general direction of'
how to set the card up to use DHCP. I know the cable ISP will
be assigning a dynamic IP.
Thanks and regards,
Keith B.
"Wil McGilvery" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>If you are using the Windose ME box to connect to the cable ISP, you should not have
>to worry about your workgroup name. I use Rogers@home and used to have a similar set
>up that you describe. With the windows machine, I assigned it the workgroup name of
>the internal network I wished to use and configured the external network card to use
>DHCP.
>
>To be able to route through the windose machine, you can use the built in Internet
>Connection Sharing (which is pitiful) or a third party program such as Nevod 1000.
>You can't get Nevod 1000 anymore from a web site. It was bought out by M$. It is a
>nice program and works well. I can send you a copy if you wish.
>
>The type of cabling that you use is not important.
>
>Regards,
>
>Wil McGilvery
>Manager, Digital Media
>
>
>Lynch Technologies Inc.
>416-744-7191
>1-888-622-3729
>416-744-0406 FAX
>www.lynchdigital.com
>
>
>
>
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>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2001 8:29 AM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Cable Modem Help
>
>Hello All,
>
>I know this is a windoze question, but the expertise of this group is why I use
>Linux in the first place.
>
>I will be setting up cable internet access in the next day or so. The ISP only
>recognizes windoze. (The SxS site shows me how to get around that w/
>Linux). It requires that you change your workgroup to @home, as well as the
>computer name. However, I have dual nic cards of two different types. My
>home net is setup using the old BNC type coaxial cables and I just put in an
>RJ45 10/100 card for use with the cable modem. No challenges and SuSE 7.2
>sees them both and has no issues.
>
>My question, as I got no help from the windoze literature, is how do I set up
>more than one workgroup under windoze ME? Then I want to route from the
>BNC card to the RJ45 card, which will be my gateway. It will have a dynamic
>IP address from the ISP provider, Comcast@home.
>
>I know there are @home users on the lists. Have any of you done this with 2
>NIC cards? It will be tough to change all the cards to RJ45 at this point.
>
>Overview of current setup:
>
> HOMENET - workgroup
> mixed Linux/windoze boxes
> Dual boot box has windoze ME with
> BNC NIC ethernet card on 192.168.1.x homenet
> RJ45 NIC ethernet card on as yet to determine IP address
> have set it to 192.168.1.x for the time being
> All other boxes only have one NIC card all set in the 192.168.1.x
> range and are using BNC type connectors
>
>
>I know, I need to get with the times, but this house is rented and BNC was able
>to be setup using existing holes the owner drilled for his speaker wires...go figure.
>
>Any and all help/thoughts/suggestions would be appreciated.
>
>
>Regards,
>
>Keith B.
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