[BLU] More MediaOne woes

[John Abreau]

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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John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix 
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