[MLIST] [olug] Has Anyone Gotten the New Cox (Motorola Surfboard) to work with Linux?

[Joe Catanzaro]

And if resetting the cable modem doesn't work, I've found that powering off 
the cable modem and waiting about 15 minutes (or however long it takes for 
the DHCP lease to expire) and then power the cable modem back on will do 
the trick. I've had this experience with several different Linux distros 
and several different cable modems. And the one time 15 minutes didn't 
work, for some reason an hour did. Go figure.....


At 12/17/02 09:09 PM Tuesday, you wrote:
>Reset the modem.  Some of them memorize the arp address of the network card
>connected to them and won't work with a different computer unless they are
>reset.
>
>On Tuesday 17 December 2002 08:59 pm, Jay Woods wrote:
> > I'm running Mandrake 8.2. My old very original Cox Modem had quit working
> > (according to the Cox technician). The Cox technician recommended a new
> > Motorola Surfboard modem and that the old one be returned.
> >
> > Now my old Windows system will hook up to the modem fine.
> > Neither the Linux system in the dhcp mode nor in the static mode to the
> > address given by winipcfg will work with the modem.
> >
> > Any suggestions?
>
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Joe Catanzaro
joecatanzaro at cox.net