>does you isp give out ip's based on mac address?
>I have heard that certain isp will only doll out a ip to an mac
>address it knows of....
Not that I am aware of. I've heard of that too, but more in
reference to cable modems than xDSL (I've found my ISP to
expire DHCP assigned addresses every three/four hours). I could
just as easily switch cards (10/100 cards can be found as low
as $20 canadian).
I can't the switch the network cards in my system because my
home network runs on 10base2(PCI NE2000/Realtek 8029 Combo)
More likely, since I finally have access to CDR, I'll cut a
copy of LM 7.0 "AIR", and give that a try first. Hopefully
it will have a updated Tulip/PNIC driver that works.
The Linux distributions I tried and found that didn't work:
LM 6.0 (Max-Linux CD)
LM 6.1 (Burned CD-R)
LRP 0.9.3 (I think)
Trinux 0.61
Thanks for your input!
Peter Verhagen
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>> (I know this more directly to Linux, not Mandrake)
>>
>> Has anyone come across a problem /w the Linksys 10/100 cards
>> based on the PNIC chip, that is - not getting DHCP assigned
>> addresses in Linux?
>>
>> The situation goes like this:
>> I have a small home network, and I want that network to have
>> access to my xDSL modem (via NAT). My Service provider
>> automatically assigns me a DHCP IP number everytime I start
>> the main computer.
>>
>> Every Linux distribution I've tried so far has not been able
>> to negotiate a DHCP IP Address from my service provider. When
>> I manually set the IP information (after extracting it from
>> my dual-boot Windows), the card works and the internet work
>> just fine.
>>
>> I remember following up on a post that the a version of the
>> tulip/PNIC driver at one point did not support "auto-load"
>> dhcp (or something like that).
>>
>> For the record, my xDSL modem is the "Netspeed SpeedRunner
>> 202".
>>
>> Does anyone have more information on this? Any help would
>> grearly appriciated.
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Peter Verhagen
>>
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