[Cialug] What's your modem?

[David Champion]

Rocket Robin Hood wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 August 2005 10:51, Claus wrote:
> 
>>No offense, but I'd say the problem lies between the chair and the
>>keyboard.  You have to realize that Qwest doesn't support Linux since
>>they don't have the time and knowledge to do so.
> 
> 
> That is FINE but what perplexed me and still does is
> a) Upon hearing none of my browsers work, I was encouraged to try Netscape. 
> When this worked, one might be tempted to think "oh, there's some browser 
> configuration trick, they've probably encountered people using alternate 
> browsers (non IE er Netscape) before and have a general idea what's wrong. 
> Perhaps they could tell me!" 
> DUH!
> 
> I am assuming the problem lies 'between the chair and the computer'. I seek 
> enlightenment. Let's assume I took my computer to someone's home network with 
> a working modem, plugged it in, and it did the same thing. What would YOU do?
> 
> See, if someone posted to the list something like "Uh, my burner's not 
> working" I would at least start out with "What happens when you type cdrecord 
> -scanbus" or "type less /etc/fstab and copy and paste that to me" 
> or ....something. I wouldn't write an essay calling them a retard.

I have had problems with my Actiontec DSL modem and linux clients - 
where DNS doesn't seem to work, but works fine from a Windows PC.

My kludge to fix this is to change the Actiontec's DHCP config to assign 
a different DNS (like your ISP's) to the DHCP clients.

-dc