Not true (entirely). What Comcast does now is direct all requests from an unauthorized modem to a Comcast web page that you enter your info in and it authorized the MAC address on your modem. Before that with AT&T Broadband, I called up support, told them I had an unsupported OS and asked them to enable my modem for use on their network. They asked for my various information, and 5 minutes later, everything worked. But yes, using the Windows program was probably the easiest way. Fortunately, now anyone with a browser can set things up. Brian On Wed, 31 Mar 2004 18:27:49 -0500 (EST) gboyce@badbelly.com wrote:
On Wed, 31 Mar 2004, Gregory Avedissian wrote:
It seems like most of the providers say that you need windows or mac to use their DSL or cable internet. Does this just mean they won't offer tech support for linux, or does it mean that it won't work? I'm planning on using a router and having two computers connected.
When I signed up for a AT&T cable modem (before Comcast bought them), it
was actually impossible to enable your cable modem from within Linux. There was a windows program to do the initial setup. After you get past
that point, Linux would work with it fine.
I luckily had a Windows partition on the machine at the time.
I'm hoping that Comcast doesn't have this same problem for new users, but issues like that are a possibility.