From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Subject: Re: Netconfig Fail Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 10:54:08 -0400 Message-ID: <20051006105408.1d7ead8f.heisspf@skyinet.net> References: <20051006091512.7dd839e8.heisspf@skyinet.net> <200510052204.15272.david@fierbaugh.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200510052204.15272.david@fierbaugh.org> Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: David Fierbaugh Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Wed, 5 Oct 2005 22:04:14 -0500 David Fierbaugh wrote: > > Are you connecting to a home router, or to a cable/dsl modem? > > Some cable/dsl services watch the MAC address, and won't allow connections > from any other network card. > I have a broadband connection and had no problem with netconfig and the onboard LAN card. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs