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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Hello.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have a computer with Comcast.net as my ISP. My
ethernet cable goes from the network interface to the cable modem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I have another computer with the same setup and
DHCP is no problem.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>On the problem computer, the card does not acquire
an ethernet address, and I don't know enough about DHCP in Linux to configure
the client software or configure the ethernet card.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Can anyone point me in the right direction? The
non-working computer is a standard x86_64 machine with a RealTek "8139too". I
compared the scripts and configuration I could find, but got
nowhere.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The giveaway is theat the "PCLiNK" on the modem
does not illuminate (meaning there is no signal from the ethernet card to the
cable modem).</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The thing is, in WindowsXP, this same computer
works fine, </FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>