Sounds Typical! My ISP couldn't even ping my home network, and that really shocked him. Now I'm going around setting up firewalls for most of his corporate clients! Life is good! Long Live Linux and cablemodems!
Lanman On Tuesday 20 November 2001 05:45 pm, you wrote: > On Tuesday 20 November 2001 17:23, you wrote: > > Hi gang, > > > > I'm one of the new newbies on the list....have been playing with my > > linux box at home for a few months (currently running LM 8.1 via the > > PowerPack). > > > > Before I lay down some cash I wanted to ask the list some questions. > > > > I'd like to add a high speed internet connection via a cable modem. My > > local cable TV company (Adelphia) will lease me a cable modem, provide > > wires, etc, and hook me up via Windows (no Linux support), etc. > > > > The plan....do their install under Windoze and then switch to linux. > > > > So a couple of questions.. > > Don't ask, mdk and cable connections hop along together as if it's always > been that way:) > > When they came to connect my cable, a guy came along (he was included in > the intiial price) to connect my PC. When I told him I had Linux he turned > a little pale (and started searching my contract including all the small > type clauses)so I booted m$windows for him. Which was terrible, cause if > ever m$ gives me trouble I just turn the machine off and reboot (auto) into > linux, and of course forget about scandisk and such after a few days:) > It left the poor man horrendous so I offered him a cup of coffee, started > linuxconf (that was mdk 7.2) and presto everything was hunkydory. > Afterwards the m$ configuration took about 1/2 an hour :( > The man left without saying 'thank you for the coffee' but I'll survive:) > > greetings > Harm
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