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Not at all

You, probably, never did this connection, did you?

I am an embedded software engineer, but this has nothing to do with how I connected to a cable on my son's machine. Watch my steps:
1. Connected cable modem to machine
2. powered on cable modem
3. powered on PC with Ubuntu live CD
4. surfed Inet.

For starters (any OS): ISP now provide you all information via DHCP protocol. All modems that I know (cable/DSL) come with HTTP pages where you set PPP connection data like your name and password. All modems nowadays run DHCP themselves to help you with your connection (plug Ethernet cable and you are in the game).
This is it - your Windows/Linux machine is ready for work.

It would be interesting to know which step did you miss?

Posted by: Solid Water   Posted on: 06/03/08 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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