Re: getting broadband working on my new AMD64 box....

On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 00:20 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debianists,

I have now installed Etch AMD64 RC1 successfully on my new AMD64 box. The
only problem I have is that the internet connection isn't working.

My old box is an AMD Duron 1200 Mhz 32 bit machine which is running Etch
i386. The internet connection works fine on it.

I use NTL broadband cable.

I have used the old box to help me get information about my internet
connection.

If you look in the network tools window you get information for eth0

IP address.

It is 86.22.11.90 and this is NTL.

I checked with the whoami tool.

I also looked in the network configuration box in the network admin icon. I
found that the DNS server numbers for NTL are 194.168.4.100 and
194.168.8.100.

I also ran ifconfig as follows:

mikef@spc1-burn4-0-0-cust262:~$ /sbin/ifconfig
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:44:33:AD:C3
inet addr:86.22.11.90 Bcast:255.255.255.255 Mask:255.255.252.0
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:576 Metric:1
RX packets:5190 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:4341 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:2 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:2418361 (2.3 MiB) TX bytes:602343 (588.2 KiB)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xc800

eth1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:0A:E6:0C:AE:D4
UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
Interrupt:5 Base address:0xcc00

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
RX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:128 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
RX bytes:6560 (6.4 KiB) TX bytes:6560 (6.4 KiB)

My question is: what is the best use of this information when I disconnect
the old box and plug in the new one to help it hook up to NTL?

I could just put the DNS numbers in the network admin window for example.

One of the very first things you must do when putting a new
machine/NIC(network interface card) on the cable modem... is to unplug
the cable modem. Well here is the series of actions I use.

1. shutdown old machine
2. turn off old machine
3. remove power from cable modem
4. unplug network cable from NIC
5. remove old machine
6. place new machine
7. plug network cable in new machine
8. restore power to cable modem
9. turn-on and start new machine

The sequences is pretty important. You see the cable modem has to see
you machines NIC or "hardware address" (HWaddr 00:02:44:33:AD:C3 on the
stuff you posted) and it remembers this ... it needs to forget and
remember the new stuff.

Once that happens, it should work fine. Most DOCSIS modems are this way
(DOCSIS == Cable Internet Infrastructure), although some cable internet
providers require activating the new HWaddr. I highly doubt that your
does this from things I've searched for.
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