Sorry to reply to my own mail, but hey, I finally got my cable connection working and I'm willing to share what I've learnt. ;-)
The problems I experienced were with the method my cable provider uses to get their clients authenticated / initialized / connected. This is what happens: o First, you connect with some DHCP client program. You get an IP in the 10.x range. Then, you start your browser (lynx here) and you immediately jump onto a CISCO page where you are prompted to identify yourself with ID / password. o Having done that, it says that you are "registered". The web page tells you to "log off" / restart your computer. Now here is where the problem lied. What I did was "killall dhcpcd". That's *wrong*. I later found out about "dhcpcd -k". (-> wasn't documented anywhere!) Thing is, if I just kill the dhcpcd process, I don't correctly get logged off their system. And that led to the situation that I kept on getting "DHCP_NAK" in the logs the next time I tried to re-connect. Now that I am finally up and running here, I just need to configure some scripts, tweak some settings until I'm all set. :) I hope these infos are of some help to someone experiencing similar problems sometime later. :) (Cable speed rocks. Throughput averages at ~15 to 20KB/s) Regards Sven -- The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.