Shouldn't any computer work with my cable modem?

Ok, I was going to buy a laptop from this fella off Craigslist,
but
when we connect the CAT 5 cable from my Motorola SB5120 cable
modem, his Compaq Presario C700 couldn't recognize the modem for
some reason.

This left me wondering, because everytime I re-format a HD and
re-install Windows XP on my desktop, there is never a problem
connecting to the
cable modem, and using the internet.

If Windows XP automatically recognized my cable modem, I would
hope Windows Vista should too.

I recall once having to give Cox communication either my serial
number, on a MAC address, but once that was worked out, I never
had to install drivers for XP to recognize the cable modem.

His reasoning was that I would have to do some software
troubleshooting,
but why with Vista and not XP? Isn't it possible there was something
wrong with the network interface card on his laptop, and he was
trying
to hide it?

Paul wrote:

>
> Ok, I was going to buy a laptop from this fella off Craigslist,
> but
> when we connect the CAT 5 cable from my Motorola SB5120 cable
> modem, his Compaq Presario C700 couldn't recognize the modem for
> some reason.
>
> This left me wondering, because everytime I re-format a HD and
> re-install Windows XP on my desktop, there is never a problem
> connecting to the
> cable modem, and using the internet.
>
> If Windows XP automatically recognized my cable modem, I would
> hope Windows Vista should too.
>
> I recall once having to give Cox communication either my serial
> number, on a MAC address, but once that was worked out, I never
> had to install drivers for XP to recognize the cable modem.
>
> His reasoning was that I would have to do some software
> troubleshooting,
> but why with Vista and not XP? Isn't it possible there was something
> wrong with the network interface card on his laptop, and he was
> trying
> to hide it?

Ok, so why don't you get a router to avoid all your MODEM recognition
problems? With a router in between it's just configuring it and plug'n'play.

The "problem" could be that winboobs configured your eth port as reverse
wired and not strait wired... On Apple hardware the configuration is
automatic but in winboobs it has to be configured by hand. Don't ask me how,
I dont use M$.

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Paul wrote:
>
> Ok, I was going to buy a laptop from this fella off Craigslist,
> but
> when we connect the CAT 5 cable from my Motorola SB5120 cable
> modem, his Compaq Presario C700 couldn't recognize the modem for
> some reason.
>
> This left me wondering, because everytime I re-format a HD and
> re-install Windows XP on my desktop, there is never a problem
> connecting to the
> cable modem, and using the internet.
>
> If Windows XP automatically recognized my cable modem, I would
> hope Windows Vista should too.
>
> I recall once having to give Cox communication either my serial
> number, on a MAC address, but once that was worked out, I never
> had to install drivers for XP to recognize the cable modem.
>
> His reasoning was that I would have to do some software
> troubleshooting,
> but why with Vista and not XP? Isn't it possible there was something
> wrong with the network interface card on his laptop, and he was
> trying
> to hide it?

Reboot the modem. Remove the power to the modem, wait 30 seconds, plug
the power back in.

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On Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:59:49 +0200, F8BOE wrote:

> The "problem" could be that winboobs configured your eth port as reverse
> wired and not strait wired... On Apple hardware the configuration is
> automatic but in winboobs it has to be configured by hand. Don't ask me how,
> I dont use M$.

So much bunk. Ethernet is wired only one way on the computer. With Windows,
as with MAC, either it works, or it doesn't work.

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