Umm... Hide your linux box and tell the guy you forgot your WINDOWS laptop at work. Someone I work with ordered a cable modem, and the installer wouldn't hook up the line because he said they don't support linux. When I ordered my line, the guy on the phone asked what OS I was using and I said linux, he said I needed to use windows or a mac or they wouldn't set it up, so I had to tell him that I would reinstall windows to use with the cable modem. When the guy came out, I just said I left my computer at work. After he left, I just called the 800 number to have it provisioned. They are friggin' nazi's about linux. Jay > -----Original Message----- > From: John J. Trammell [mailto:trammell at trammell.dyndns.org] > Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 12:22 PM > To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > Subject: Re: [TCLUG] Roadrunner cable & DHCP > > > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 11:28:07AM -0400, Dan Drake wrote: > > Later this week, I'll be getting a cable modem installed (Time > > Warner/Roadrunner/whatever) and I'm curious about the DHCP > they use. > > I'm pretty sure the tech will be clueless about setting up > the cable > > modem with Linux. > > When I had TW/RR, I used a stock Debian distro with dhcpcd > (cd for client daemon), and had no problems. The install > techs didn't even care about the peecee I was going to hook > up to the modem -- they just wanted to make sure the > blinkenlights on the thing looked happy. > > -- > Just Another Perl Hacker. > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-> linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >