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#1 2009-09-11 06:29:05

Proofrific
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Registered: 2008-01-05
Posts: 215

[Solved] Can't Connect to Cable Modem: Carrier Lost

*** The Problem ***

I just switched to Time Warner Cable, and I can't connect to the wired connection using wicd or /etc/rc.d/network combination.  But, it does work in Windows XP.

I had the following errors in /var/log/everything.log, which would repeat over and over.

Sep 10 22:10:48 thinkpad kernel: e1000e: eth0 NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX
Sep 10 22:10:48 thinkpad kernel: 0000:00:19.0: eth0: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
Sep 10 22:10:48 thinkpad kernel: ADDRCONF(NETDEV_CHANGE): eth0: link becomes ready
Sep 10 22:10:48 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: carrier acquired
Sep 10 22:10:48 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: rebinding lease of 72.130.183.252
Sep 10 22:10:53 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: acknowledged 72.130.183.252 from 76.85.238.55
Sep 10 22:10:53 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: checking for 72.130.183.252
Sep 10 22:10:54 thinkpad kernel: 0000:00:19.0: eth0: changing MTU from 1500 to 576
Sep 10 22:10:54 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: MTU set to 576
Sep 10 22:10:54 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: carrier lost
Sep 10 22:10:54 thinkpad dhcpcd: eth0: MTU restored to 1500
Sep 10 22:10:54 thinkpad kernel: 0000:00:19.0: eth0: changing MTU from 576 to 1500

*** The Solution ***

The solution is to use dhclient instead of dhcpcd.  I downloaded it from a different computer by going to a mirror (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Mirrors) and downloading dhclient from the extra repository.  Then, I transferred it to Linux using a USB drive and installed using sudo pacman -U pkgname.  It works fine now.  I restarted wicd and configured it to use dhclient instead of dhcpcd.

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