more network problems

[Alex Snow]

My cable companie's well not that organized.  They don't give a damn about
mac addresses or anything.  That'd be too much work on their part.
Explorer has caused a general protection fault in module kernel32.dll. I'm
sick of Winblows!
----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Konka" <peter at cwareonline.com>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Saturday, October 12, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: more network problems


> If you plug your computer directly into the cable modem, it might not work
> because your broadband company might need the mac address of the computers
> network card.  It might not need that but here in Boston, my cable company
> would need the mac address of any port that the cable modem is connected
> directly to in order to get access to the web.
>
> Peter Konka.
>
> At 07:22 PM 10/10/02 -0500, you wrote:
> >Have you tried a direct connection to your cable modem yet?  If that
> >didn't work, are you sure DHCP is installed?  Try this as root.  "dhcpcd
> >eth0."  What happens?  Any errors?  I am almost sure that either your
> >router isn't cooperating with this computer for whatever reason, or you
> >are missing something like dhcpcd.  How did you install Slackware?  Did
> >you use the full install or a prompted install?
> >
> >
> >
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