When you do an ifconfig, do you see an ip address and dns? That would at least tell you if your NIC and the cable modem were communicating.
Have you tried the connection again with the powerbook plugged in? If it works then, I would say that your cable modem is now bound to the MAC address of the NIC on the powerbook. I think your ISP can break the bind if you ask them to. I would also do what Aaron suggested. Power down your cable modem, leave it off for a few seconds and plug the power back in. It should resync with your ISP. I have had to do that a few times with my 3com cable modem, for no reason as far as I could tell. The resync should take no longer than a minute or two. If it does, then there is something wrong with your connection or with something on the ISP end. Good luck Vinh * C Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010329 11:54]: > Aaron: > > Power cycling? > > Can you expand... > > CM > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Aaron Brashears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: C Mead <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: debain-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>; Jason Majors > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 12:38 PM > Subject: Re: K guys here's a new one for me.... > > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 11:59:25AM -0500, C Mead wrote: > > > The box did not have X on it and Lynx was becoming a bit of a pain, so I > > > unplugged the ethernet and put it into one of those new powerbooks (very > > > nice), so i could track down a solution for the error on the web. Found > the > > > solution plugged the ethernet back in and nothing couldn't ping anything > > > virtually no connection except to ping itself. > > > > I had something very similer happen recently at my house after the > > last blackout in my neighborhood. I tried everything, but no net > > connection - I assumed I had fried the net card. In desperation, I > > power cycled the network switch (!) and everything came back. > > > > Have you tried power cycling every piece of hardware involved in your > > connection?
