Comcast hates freedom!<br><br>As others have suggested, the likely issue is the comcast tech not knowing what to do with a non-windbloz machine. There are likely WEP keys from the wireless router and the knowledge was not there to set them up properly on the PC side. You would be amazed at the simplicity and security of a $15 cat5 cable to a desktop machine.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 6:49 AM, Daniel Howard <<a href="mailto:dhhoward@comcast.net">dhhoward@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I got a call last nite from a teacher I'd given an Ubuntu PC for her<br>
kids to use at home. The Comcast guy was there installing a cablemodem<br>
router with wireless and they were having trouble getting the Ubuntu PC<br>
on the network, something about the router reporting "This OS not<br>
supported." I've hung Linux PCs off of cablemodems for years now w/o<br>
problems, is there something new Comcast Atlanta could be doing to<br>
prevent Linux OS PCs?<br>
<br>
Best,<br>
Daniel<br>
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