more network problems

[William Hubbs]

I use AT&T Broadband here in TX, and they don't seem to care about mac
addresses either.

William

On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 08:39:24AM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> 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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