Actually, I had the same problem. I called and said I needed to use a
laptop from work on my cable connection. They said turn the modem off for
about 5 minutes, this clears some file that the modem stores your MAC 
address in. Then plug in the new NIC. Works like a champ. I've had to
do this several times.

I was going to be pretty pissed off if they were to tell me I had to let
them know every time I changed network cards. Fortunately I didn't have to
yell at anybody! ;)


-- 
Brad Bendily - CNA


On Sat, 10 Aug 2002, Tim Fournet wrote:

> I'm using RH 7.2 on my machine with dhcpcd and it works fine. When the
> installer came by, I had him do all the installation on a Windows 2000 box,
> then after he left, I moved the card over to the linux one. The cable
> connection didn't seem to agree with the nic that was already in the linux
> machine, so I'm assuming it ties the account to the MAC address. Running
> dhcpcd with the -d option, as well as tail -f /var/log/messages in the
> background _should_ show you what's going on. I'm not clear from your
> original post, do "windows side" and "linux side" refer to the same machine
> dual-booting, or different boxes? If they're different, I'd definitely swap
> their nics.
> 
> -Tim
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Terry Stockdale" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Saturday, August 10, 2002 7:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [brlug-general] @Home DHCP saga continued
> 
> 
> > IFIRC, back in the days of RH70 and @Home, folks had to use pump instead
> of
> > dhcpcd.  You might try that.  I'm not sure you specified which distro and
> > version you were using.
> >
> > On the subject of dhcpcd verbose option, you can always use the -d
> > option.  Quoting from the man file:
> > -d     With  this flag dhcpcd will syslog(LOG_DEBUG,...) messages for
> about
> > every step it does.  It's
> >                recommended to use this option since it
> > doesn't  really  produce  too  much  output  but  will
> >                greatly help in resolving a problems if any.
> >
> >
> > At 06:15 PM 8/10/2002 -0500, John Cole wrote:
> > >Tim-
> > >
> > >I was mistaken in my original statement.  Further poking around shows
> that
> > >dhcpcd is not receiving anything back from Cox at all.  The IP address et
> > >al.. which I thought were from Cox were cached settings from another DHCP
> > >experiment. dhcpcd does not have a verbose option, and returns without
> > >writing anying to /etc/dhcpc, /etc/dhcpcd, or resolv.conf.  I am going to
> > >do some more reading.  If you have any thoughts, I would appreciate
> > >hearing them.
> > >
> > >John.
> >
> > --
> > Terry Stockdale -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Baton Rouge, LA
> > website:  http://www.dadstoy.net
> >
> >
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