More silly questions!

[poijoy]

Ok, I have a 250 with the infinite firmware, using the 250 configurator I have changed the settings to:

a working MAC (well, I've tried about 5 so far)
cm-20480-768
Annex 3
Tuner 19

and all the other settings as per Haynes. Now the boot state simply gets to 'waiting for DHCP offer' and stays there. any ideas what this could be? at the moment it's a bit like looking for a needle in a hay stack!

[poijoy]

Just been having a quick look around the router. found the clearcmcert command under docsisctl, I have a sneaky feeling this might help but I don't really want to go pressing buttons and bricking the modem through stupidity just yet!. At the moment the status is showing 'network access - denied' regardless of the settings I change (I have been back through and changed everything as per the haynes as well as using 250 configurator just to be certain of what has been changed) and this is showing before the modem tries to sync so I am assuming it has to do with something on the modem itself rather than a remote setting...

[falloutdom]

I dont kno much bout these modems but i have sigma x2 installed on mine and i had that trouble..

i went to 192.168.100.1

went onto configeration on top bar and clickon reset all defaults

restarded modem

typed in downstream frequensy, saved it

went to sigma x2 page... 192.168.100.1:1337

typed in a mac from diffrent area and press change and restarted modem and it worked

hope this helps

[poijoy]

Cheers bud, I think what I'm after is pretty much a reset all settings option for the infinity software as well, turns out that the max232 cable that I bought gives me gibberish from 2 seperate modems, one I know to be working so reflashing isn't an option until I can get a new one. Doh!!

[falloutdom]

yew got msn

[poijoy]

Yup, moores _ ben @ hotmail . com

[falloutdom]

Originally Posted by poijoy

Yup, moores _ ben @ hotmail . com

iv tryed addin you dounno if you go the request mines

millzy _ vaxcd @ hotma il . co . uk

[lincsat]

Originally Posted by poijoy

Ok, I have a 250 with the infinite firmware, using the 250 configurator I have changed the settings to:

a working MAC (well, I've tried about 5 so far)
cm-20480-768
Annex 3
Tuner 19

and all the other settings as per Haynes. Now the boot state simply gets to 'waiting for DHCP offer' and stays there. any ideas what this could be? at the moment it's a bit like looking for a needle in a hay stack!

That sounds like an incorrect TFTP server address - you need the one associated with the MAC address. Don't forget to change the default infinite login/password, you can do it with the configurator

[poijoy]

Thanks Lincsat, I was under the impression I had to use the one from my own area, I'll change it later today and see what happens

[poijoy]

Sweet, all sorted now, it was a combination of the wrong TFTP server and a MAC which looks like it may have been blacklisted, all up and running now

On a side note, I'm clearly a novice here but I do have a decent amount of experience supporting DSL from the ISP side of things so have a reasonable knowledge of what might be going on behind the scenes, is there anywhere with reasonably accessible information on the cable only side of things I could read up on this stuff?