new cable modem - and problems

[Matt Cahill]

I'll keep this short:  I have no clue what happened, but I'm connected now.

Slightly longer version:

- tried Knoppix: no luck

- had a spare HD, loaded Win98SE just to see whether it was the OS or the 
modem:  no connection.  Called Rogers.  Twenty-five minutes later, the 
gentleman told me to contact a PC repair shop because of a possible 'winsock' 
conflict (!)

-decided to switch the Ethernet cable to USB and switched HD's back to 
Libranet:  no connection.  Saw that the 'dhcpd' server was starting up right 
after the dhcp client.

- played around - found that 'dhcpd' comes with the 'dhcp' package and - not 
knowing how to disable the server from running - deleted the 'dhcpd.conf' 
file in /etc (read: desperate curiosity).

 - upon reboot, it bloody worked.

- the USB connection seems a lot more solid (literally, staring at the light) 
than the Ethernet cable, leading me to wonder if it was, as they say, The 
Cable.

Strange.  However, I did the troubleshooting equivalent of pinching myself:  I 
rebooted again, and it worked again.  So, I'm not dreaming.

Weird.

However:  thanks to everyone for their assistance.

M





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