On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 11:39 AM, Travis Beatty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Forgive me for changing you all from the topic of shadow and Newegg > builds, however I'm in quite a... erm, what would the word really even be? > > My modem died a few weeks ago, so we had to wait for the OO repair man > to come out [believe it or not, they DIDN'T cancel my subscription for > seeing a nice Gentoo box there]. They ended up giving me a new modem, > because they couldn't find the exact problem. It's one of the new > Motorola-VoIP modems [SBV5121XM]. > > After plugging it in, my router refused to grab an IP [0.0.0.0]. I > have a WRG614 that I got a long time ago from my father as a Christmas > present. It worked up to the modem switch. > > Is there a specific problem with this combination of modem and router? > Is there a way around this problem? Google hasn't really been able to > tell me anything useful, sadly. > > I have a router I've built, however it doesn't have a wireless card, > and Karen really needs wireless to connect her *buntu machine. I was > hoping to buy a wireless card for the new-router AFTER I bought some > other stuff. > > Is there anything I can do? > > > Thanks for taking the time to read this. > > > ~Travis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.7 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > > iD8DBQFH4TGzM5jTVCW2f9URAozyAKCN67zqof0N1yL6sjgMFjFzoa3SMACeNnQK > JiCp+HFApYSMzSYMbnZvU1w= > =nu1S > -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
If you haven't done it already, it might be worth trying to connect the modem directly to a computer to make sure the problem isn't the modem. -- John D. Mort http://john.mort.net _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) MHVLS Auditorium Mar 5 - Wearable Linux Computing Apr 2 - Building a Kernel the Debian / Ubuntu way May 7 - Setting up a platform-independent home/small office network using Linux Jun 4 - TBD Jul 2 - KVM (Tenative)
