On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:41 -0800, Florin Andrei wrote: > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Depends. The first modem I got from comcast wouldn't do squat until > > I went through the 'registration cd install'. Trying to get a dhcp lease > > from Linux did nothing. After installing it on a windows box, Linux > > was able to get a lease. > > If I'm not mistaken, Comcast remembers your last MAC address and won't > let you change the network card - if you register with one card, it > won't work with another (unless you change the MAC). > > Maybe it depends on the location? I'm in Mt. View, CA. Some Linksys routers allow you to set the MAC address. I've got cox cable - they also required a PC or Mac to set up - but they don't do self install. They send a guy out to do it. Once the cable modem is verified, any OS can use it just fine. In my case, mac address doesn't seem to matter - initial setup used my laptop running XP SP 2 at the time. As soon as he left, it switched to a Linksys wireless router - which worked. Then later I switched it to a Vonage router (the linksys wireless would lock up during BT - causing loss of phone service) and that worked just fine (BT is fine too, since my BT machine isn't wireless)
