[TriLUG] Road Runner and Linux (was: replacing a hard drive)

[Vestal, Roy L.]

I just plugged in my laptop, started network services and I was up BEHIND a
Linksys firewall. Not sure what you were told.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Turner [mailto:markt at siteseers.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 11:54 AM
To: trilug at trilug.org
Subject: [TriLUG] Road Runner and Linux (was: replacing a hard drive)


Jason Tower wrote:
> when i 'self-installed' RR a year or two ago, i seem to recall that i 
> had to install a win32 app on my windows box to initialize the cable 
> modem or something to that effect.

Hmm. Are you sure it was RR? IANARRE, but all the cable modem needs to 
initialize is to get talking with the headend. I don't recall having to 
boot my machine at all in order to get the modem itself working.

In fact, I've had a few good chats with some budding Linux users in the 
TW support department. None of my dealings with TW has indicated any 
real bias against Linux. Just don't expect them to jump in and assist 
you with Linux if your modem drops offline.

Cheers!
Mark


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   Mark Turner, N4JMT   Siteseers Inc.
   www.markturner.net   Open Source Solutions
                        www.siteseers.net

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