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

[Jay Woods]

Thank you all for your help. The key piece of information was to unplug 
the modem for a minute while I restored the linux box to using dhcp and 
then turning the modem back on.

Joe Catanzaro wrote:

> 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
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