new cable modem - and problems

[James Knott]

Matt Cahill wrote:
> 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.

Either the cable or bad ethernet port.
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