On Saturday 17 Aug 2002 3:05 pm, poogle wrote: > Had to dust off an old windows drive and plug it in to get my NTL broadband > set up, this is obviously not my preferred way to connect to the internet. > I have googled endlessly to find a how to set up NTL Cable broadband with > Linux but without success. > Could somebody who has installed NTL cable in MD 8.2 please tell me what to > do or point me to a how-to or tutorial please ?
Yes. I have NTL cable broadband. What you have to do to get it working is leave it switched off overnight, and in the morning it will work!!! The problem is the cable modem makes a note of your Hostname/Mac address, and refuses to acccept a new address until the dhcp license is renewed in four hours. The problem is that the address reported by Linux is going to be slightly different to the one reported by Windows, and so you get rejected. If you work continuously in Linux, or if you have a firewall/router betweem your computer and the modem there is no issue. Just wait 4 hours. If you want to switch between Linux and Windows, there is a way to configure your DHCP client to look like a Windows one. I will try to find a web reference and send it you. derek
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