On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Travis Beatty wrote: > 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.
A common problem (at least in the beginning) with cable modems was that they seemed to "get an attachment" for the device they first hand out an IP address to. This shows up when you unplug the cable modem from a computer it was set up with to a router. :-/ Last I remember the recommended way to "fix it" was to disconnect the cable modem and turn it off for a period of time (of which I don't recall) and then to turn it on while plugged into the router you want to use. Hope that helps -- Chris -- Chris Knadle [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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)
