14 Feb
2008
14 Feb
'08
11:28 p.m.
Dan Martin wrote:
I plugged my Win2K machine directly to the cable modem and configured it to connect by DHCP. I could not get an address for it. Shaw believes the modem is working and trying to assign an address.
It is suspicious that the NIC would not configure when plugged to the cable modem - but everything else works. I can browse the web and get my mail.
Is this consistent with a NIC failure? could it be something else?
Did you power cycled your modem. Your modem is probably configured to only support one DHCP address so you have to reset the modem so that it has no IP addresses assigned.
-- Bill