[TriLUG] Re: Cable Modem and Linux

[Jason Purdy]

A few years ago, I was using USB from a Motorola 4100 Surfboard cable modem
and I worked with Brad Hards (basically, he sent me patches and I sent him
debug logs) and it made it into a -ac kernel release:

http://lwn.net/2001/0712/a/2.4.6-ac2.php3

Ahhh ... that musta burnt up a minute or two from my 15 minutes. ;)

Anyway, suffice it to say, USB should work (it did for me after those
patches), but as I heard from techies, that's not the way it's supposed to
be done and if you can use RJ45, all the better.

Jason

-----Original Message-----
From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org]On
Behalf Of Turnpike Man
Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:01 AM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Re: Cable Modem and Linux


YES, RR in the Triangle area does try to put users on the USB connected
cable.
I specifically had to request I get an RJ45 connection, which they actually
gave me a cheapo 10mbit card too (which I have kindly never used).  The
cable
modem I have allows for both, but I bet, unless they have changed, they'll
try
to bring you USB unless you specify.  I'd make sure you ask Customer Service
or
Ordering about that.

David M.

--- "Lance A. Brown" <lance at bearcircle.net> wrote:
> Roberto J. Dohnert wrote:
>
> > I am moving to a new house and where i used to live I had DSL, with
> > the new place I am getting RoadRunner.  I run Yellowdog Linux 3.0 and
> > Red Hat Linux 9, I was wondering if there were any specific drivers I
> > need to load or anything special I need to do with Linux to get it to
> > work properly with Cable.  People can reply through the lists or you
> > can send me a private e-mail.
> >
> Greetings,
>
> I've been running RH Linux with RR for over 2 years now with no special
> requirements.  I've got an ethernet connected cablemodem so all I need
> is a NIC in my computer to talk to the cablemodem.  Don't know what
> you'll need to do if you get a USB-connected cablemodem (do they make
> such beasts?)
>
> --[Lance]


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