[BLU] More MediaOne woes

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

BTW: I have been using my Linksys BEFSR41 lately and it has not 
missed a beat. I did change the MAC address onthe Linksys box so that 
I can plug in my Linux system if something goes wrong with the Linksys. 
Make sure you have the latest firmware on the Netgear Router. I hope 
you have thr RT314 not the RT311. 
On 20 Dec 2000, at 11:22, John Abreau wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, David Kramer wrote:
> 
> > At its worst, it was never that bad for me.  Does the sync lock light on
> > the cablemodem stay on?
> 
> Cablemodem looks okay; the sync light stays on the whole time.
>  
> > When I had problems, I found it helpful to put a lot of echo statements in
> > the ifup* scripts and the other scripts they called.  Also most of the
> > dhcp clients have a verbose option.  Which dhcp client are you using?
> 
> I had it installed on my iMac, and I was unable to switch it to my Netgear
> router. I haven't tried it on a Linux machine yet.
> 
> I did try hard-wiring the address to what DHCP had assigned, and that gave
> the same symptoms; it would work for a while, then lock up, and sometimes
> resetting the NIC would fix it, sometimes it wouldn't.
> 
> > As a side question, we've been videotaping for quite a few meetings by
> > now.  Are any of them available on the server yet?
> 
> The files are still rather large, and I haven't settled on a format yet. I
> tried RealProducer at one point, but it generated a file that wouldn't
> play in the Linux player. I've got a Quicktime movie using the
> Motion-JPEG codec that plays in XMovie, but that file is 1.5 gb, and I
> wasn't about to upload that through a 56k modem. It's also too big to fit
> on a CD.
> 
> I haven't gotten the DV vcr working yet, so I haven't had a chance to wipe
> the ESR video from the hard drive and start on the next month's video yet.
> Now that Broadcast 2000 now supports firewire, I'm planning on picking up
> a 1.1ghz T-bird system sometime soon and trying out B2000 with the next
> video.
> 
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Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Associate Director
Boston Linux and Unix user group
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