setting up fibreoptic inet connection

[pickarooney]

I've been using a cable connection until today, and have just got a new fibre optic connection.
What do I need to do to get a signal from the new FO modem? The lights are on on the modem and network card but when I try to refresh the connection with
ifdown eth0 && ifup eth0 it hangs and fails to connect.
I tried running the network card configuration from within harddrake, but there's no option for fibreoptic and trying to configure it as cable fails in the same way.

[jumpedintothefire]

Can you post make and model of the modem and the output of "/sbin/mii-tool -vv". On a hunch only, you may need to use a cross-over cable from the nic card to the modem.

[Icarus]

Thats how mine is setup. Verizon has a big box in my garage where the fibre goes into and that converts it to ethernet which plugs into a router (I almost yelled at the installer when he pluged in a D-Link router in my house :D) and the router is just a simple broadband/dsl router that handles the authentication with the Verizon network.

In my case if I wasn't able to get a dhcp responce I'd check to make sure the router is working since that is what assigns the addresses for your local network

[pickarooney]

Heh, it turns out I just had to wait overnight for them to activate it. All is well now.
I have another query now, hopefully it's ok to post it here.
With the new cabel connected, I want to set up my new email account and use it.
Using opera's mail client, I added the details of the new account, but when I try to send a mail from it I get a message saying "Relaying denied: IP possible forged".
I think my old IP is stored somewhere and I need to remove this reference to be able to send from the new account. Where is it, though?

I also can't access my old e-mail account (except via the web) and need some methd of either accessing it or forwarding everything to my new address.