Manual Registration Comcast High Speed Internet in Fedora 4
Florin Andrei
florin at andrei.myip.org
Tue Jan 3 23:41:32 UTC 2006
On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 18:26 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> Depends. The first modem I got from comcast wouldn't do squat until
> I went through the 'registration cd install'. Trying to get a dhcp lease
> from Linux did nothing. After installing it on a windows box, Linux
> was able to get a lease.
If I'm not mistaken, Comcast remembers your last MAC address and won't
let you change the network card - if you register with one card, it
won't work with another (unless you change the MAC).
Maybe it depends on the location? I'm in Mt. View, CA.
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Florin Andrei
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