[Hudlug] Blueyonder Broadband

[Ian]

On Saturday 07 September 2002 5:26 pm, you wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 16:48, R.I.Kirkcaldy@Bradford.ac.uk wrote:
> > Quoting Chris Lindley <chris.lindley@scotgate.org>:
> > > Are you sure you need win98 to install Blueyonder?  NTL say a windows
> > > machine is needed for the cable modem install, but basically they're
> > > saying they only support windows.  When I had my cable modem
> > > installed,
> > > I just got the man to plug it into the wall. I did all the rest!
> >
> > It says quite clearly on the website that:
> > It is possible to configure Linux to work with blueyonder broadband
> > Internet, however our installers will not connect to a PC running Linux,
> > and unfortunately we are unable to offer any technical support to users
> > choosing to run this operating system
> > You will need Window 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000 or Millennium and for Macintosh
> > operating systems 8.1 to 9.05.
>
> It does sounds quite like what NTL do.  i.e. give them a PC (running
> windows) to connect to, or just ask them to connect the cable modem and
> box up.
>
> Then when they leave, you do all the rest. i.e. connecting the Linux
> box!
>
> When the NTL man connected my cable modem, he did give the impression
> that a lot of people do, do their own config'ing.
>
> > It also says somewhere that my computer has to have antivirus software on
> > it. Can you imagine the technicians being able to setup antivirus on all
> > types of linux?  Chances are they have an instruction book which they
> > follow word for word to setup windows/apple - re-read the operating
> > system requirements, they can't even support XP or osX yet.
>
> Yeah, they'll have an idiot-proof flow chart of what to do next!!
>
> 1, switch on PC
>
> 2, switch on monitor
>
> 3, go for cup of tea
>
> 4, place cd in cd drive (drawer that comes out of top of machine, with
> cd size insert in it!)
>
> etc.....
>
> Cheers
> Chris

All NTL did for me was install the cable left everything else to me.  Some 
instruction for windoze and that was it.