On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 7:05 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > Message: 8 > Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2009 10:42:14 -0400 > From: Mail Lists <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Baffled by a Cable Modem > To: "Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using > Fedora." <[email protected]> > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On 06/20/2009 10:38 AM, Jim wrote: > > >> What your forgetting is the mac# from a previous device, Computer ,etc, > >> some cable modems will retain that mac # and not connect to any new > >> devices until you clear the old one. > >> > > > I thought he had connectivity - just not to all hosts - so this sounds > >like a red herring. > > I have been trying to follow this line of trouble shooting, but it think it > is above my pay grade. > But I think you are right about the red-herring. I can ping any one I have > tried. I think that means my DHCP and DNS are OK. > > >Could it be DNS problem? ... firefox caches dns ... so some cached > >hosts may work > That looks promising. If firefox is cacheing a bad dns, then maybe > everything else would work OK except firefox. Maybe, if it cached a google > dns, it would work with the google stuff, which it does, but not other > sites. > However, I also tried dillo, with the same unable to load result. > I had an idea of how to check this. I booted the problem computer with fc9 > Live-CD. (I think that gives me all clean configuration files) and I had the > same problem and gmail still worked. > > I have connected the ethernet cable out of the modem to my old computer ( > fc8). I tried to boot, which went OK, except the modem wasn't found. I then > powered down the modem and the computer, then powered them both up and > booted. > It seems to work fine. (Maybe this computer works on saturdays) > To me, it acts like hardware. Next I think I will try putting in an old NIC > that I have and see what happens. > > > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > [email protected] > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list > Guidelines: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines >
Could someone put a sane subject on this please? (no subject) doesn't make any sense. -- Armin Moradi
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