-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 October 15, 2003 03:49 am, Len Lawrence wrote: > Well I am about to shoot myself, again! Finally made the decision to > go broadband, having been advised on this list that there would be no > difficulty with a Linux system. Contacted Telewest BlueYonder, and > the technician turned up today, and found he could not install the > modem because there is no Windows machine in the house. He could not > install the hardware and leave it without it being configured and > presumably talking to base. All he would do is load a CD into > Windows, if it were available, and let it run. His supervisor gave > him some story about having to run the Windows setup before the modem > could be used. I am so completely ignorant about networking that I > could not even begin to suggest how we might go about experimenting > with it to try and get the modem recognised and the connection > working. All I could give the poor lad was the MAC address of eth0 > and all he knew was that the connection needed to be configured under > DHCP.
That should have been sufficient Len. > Can anybody tell me just what information would be required for a > simple standalone setup? And is it true that the cable modem can only > be initialized by proprietary software? No it isn't true. At least here in Canada. The cable company here has the usual disclaimer programmed into the hell desk denizens too but they never argue about any software required, just a way to configure the hardware. The local tel-co told a neighbour of mine last Wednesday that they "couldn't support 'lienux' (that's how the lad pronounced it) since their ADSL software was designed for Windows only." I called customer service for her and told them that was crap, since the only requirement they actually have is the hardware address of the NIC. They shut up and did it manually and she's running a "Cooker" install. She has since ordered a Discovery Edition of Mandrake Linux 9.2 Canicule. She really likes it. Says "Windows sure sucks compared to this, doesn't it?" > I have perused various HOWTOs without seeing exactly what kind of > information is needed. IP addresses of course. Presumably I could > badger Telewest to give me those in written form, but what else? The > dialup connection was simple to configure because Demon provided all > the relevant parameters. The DHCP servers have to log the MAC address against an assigned IP number activate the "lease" then enable DNS access and response. That is all, as far as I've ever been able to determine, any connection to an ISP requires. Good luck Len. Charlie - -- Edmonton,AB,Canada User 244963 at http://counter.li.org Cooker on kernel 2.4.22-10mdk 09:48:53 up 24 days, 23:11, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.08, 0.07 The rich get rich, and the poor get poorer. The haves get more, the have-nots die. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/jW/zG11CaRuZZSIRAh9yAJ4vgJviv1jnuBTa6QXBFQ5uFu6nCACdGP+4 hgHMkJBrzni0EV3iIgWkr+g= =pJKQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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