For the past few weeks we've been experiencing our Internet connection (Comcast) going away and returning. I got worse so I called their tech support. The first tier decided that they could see the modem sometimes but would lose it, too, and concluded that I needed a new modem. So this morning I drove over to the Comcast store in Milwaukie and got a new one. I plugged it in but the router would not see it.
I tried my connecting my laptop running Linux Mint directly to the modem but no joy. I tried my wife's laptop running Win7 and got connected. Over the course of the morning I spoke with three guys from the Portland support group. During some of those discussions I was able to connect with my wife's laptop, but not always. I tried moving the modem to a different cable down at the box on the side of the house (the demark in telephone terms). That always worked for the Win7 laptop but never worked for my Linux laptop. That was with the last fellow I spoke with. He admitted to not being familiar with Linux, but did understand that I could run a program like the Windows ipconfig on my Linux box. When I do that (run ifconfig) I can see an IP6 address but not an IP4 address. When I run ipconfig on the Windows laptop I see both an IP4 and an IP6 address. Is there something I'm missing about getting an IP4 address from this new modem? It's a UB D3.0. For now I'm reduced to doing e-mail through web mail on this Win7 laptop. -- Regards, Dick Steffens _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
