Manual Registration Comcast High Speed Internet in Fedora 4

[Florin Andrei]

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.

-- 
Florin Andrei

http://florin.myip.org/