comcast and linux

[Chris Brenton]

tom fogal wrote:
> 
> 	Just wondering if any of you have had issues/problems/war stories
> setting up a linux box to work w/ comcast.

Prior to switching to DSL I had it working fine.

> my roommate hung around this morning
> to be there when they hooked it up, and when he called up they flat out 
> refused to support linux and told him, 'if you cant run our windows program 
> than you cant use our network'.

This is correct. They provide you access based on your MAC address after 
you have authenticated. Two options:

1) Install their software using Crossover Office. Ran that way fine for 
me. Might work under Wine alone, but I have not tried.

Throw the NIC in a Windows box, register, and move the NIC to your Linux 
system.

HTH,
C