[Leaplist] Brighthouse cable hook up

[patrick]

Donated my Dell 4100 system to the family of 5 girls, whose older 400
system had been resurrected enough.

This unit running Mepis worked fine on my Brighthouse Cable, and DSL at
the installfest, but, though I can see that Network is connected, the
send light is out, while the receive light and traffic are on with many
Mb of transfers.

The BrightHouse IP assigned is the same 167.xxx.xxx.15 upon all restarts
of the Modem and the computer.

What could be configured incorrectly?  The IP says the signal is strong
and pings fine.

They have Brighthouse cable, and the modem is one with VOIP that their
phone hooks to.

After configuration, it states that the entire system should be
rebooted, which I do with a shutdown and restart.

Scratching my head...