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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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] __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
