Connecting to Comcast

[plussier at mindspring.com]

Hi All,
I've *finally* got a cable modem (after waiting about 7 years:) 
however, I can't seem to get Linux to connect.

I've tried getting a dhcp address from the modem, but nothing happens.
The "PC/Activity" light is flashing an awful lot, but it seems to do 
this even when the interface is down (I'm assuming this is lowlevel 
link-layer traffic).

I've tried using pump to get an address, and watched daemon.log and 
an ethereal trace, and both show a bootp request going out, but 
nothing ever comes back.

Does Comcast require you to register MAC addresses?  I know MediaOne 
did, but the guy came today and just hooked up the cable modem and 
left.  I just got basic installtion, so he didn't muck with the system
at all in order to get a MAC address from it, nor did he mention to 
my wife that I'd have to do this.

Anyone have any ideas?  So far I've if[up|down]ed the interface 
(eth1, netgear), I've power-cycled the cable mode, etc.
No firewall script yet, so that's not causing any problems.

  Kernel 2.4.19 (yeah, I need to upgrade)
  Debian sid
  Comcast
  Motorola Surfboard SB5100
  Netgear NIC

Any info would be great, thanks!


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