[Herts] NTL Cable Modems and Linux

[Tauseef Zahid]

Alright thanx for sharing but can we configuring it using USB??






>From: Neil Youngman <n.youngman@ntlworld.com>
>Reply-To: herts@mailman.lug.org.uk
>To: herts@mailman.lug.org.uk
>Subject: [Herts] NTL Cable Modems and Linux
>Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 16:32:40 +0000
>
>My cable modem is now up and running. It was installed on Saturday and I
>originally intended to set it up on USB on Win98 and if I could get it
>working on Linux I would have saved myself the price of a cheap NIC. While
>setting it up I assumed that I could still dial up as a fallback. On 
>Saturday
>I read the documentation before starting and found that as soon as I had 
>the
>cable modem set up, my account would be converted to a cable modem account.
>i.e. I could only have dial up access on a separate account from the cable
>modem.
>
>Anyway today I got a cheap and cheerful RTL8139 NIC for 12 quid from PC
>Efficient and everything's more or less working. Installation of the NIC 
>was
>a right pain on win98. On Linux the installation was a breeze, but I'm not
>sure what the canonical way of configuring DHCP on Debian is. Currently I
>just run the pump DHCP client manually.
>
>Anyway the point of all this is that as long as you've got a 'doze dual 
>boot
>the NTL cable modems seem pretty easy to use with Linux, bearing in mind of
>course that I've only been on for a few hours.
>
>Remarkably I was even able to get through to customer services in under 5
>minutes to cancel my 2nd phone line.
>
>Neil
>
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