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November 02, 2002

The Cable Guy

Getting a room ready for a new member of the family, I moved our cable modem and cable router to the basement and the Aironet base station to my wife's office, which basically meant reshuffling our whole home network.

It all works now (yeah!). At first, I couldn't get the Aironet to work. Hmm -- did it loose its settings? I can't get to its web page either, or telnet to it. Is it dead?

Well, maybe it would help if I actually connected the Ethernet cable from it to the switch.

Another geek win: I kept having printing problems from Linux, especially my work notebook (now running RedHat 8.0). So I decided to switch to the CUPS printing system. RedHat has a 'wizard' to make the switch for you, but it doesn't tell you what to do once you have.

It is RTFM time. I actually read the docs. This may be a first. And now it works -- I can print!

Sometimes you have to be greatful for small things.

Posted by markj at November 2, 2002 09:45 PM

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Hi, Couldn't find a direct email, so I'll bug ya this way... Since my site is in your sidebar (thanks for that) I thought you should know that I changed my provider and became master of my domain. No more users.rcn.com yadda yadda... I am http://www.staceygeorge.com Thanks again, Sg

Posted by: stacey at November 5, 2002 01:36 AM

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