> 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 stumbled across the same thing when I was working on a friend's network. Of course, I figured it out by trial and error, but I would certainly agree that this is indeed the case. -NK
