[ale] Comcast preventing Linux on wireless router modems?

[lists at serioustechnology.com (Geoffrey)]

Daniel Howard wrote:
> I got a call last nite from a teacher I'd given an Ubuntu PC for her 
> kids to use at home.  The Comcast guy was there installing a cablemodem 
> router with wireless and they were having trouble getting the Ubuntu PC 
> on the network, something about the router reporting "This OS not 
> supported."  I've hung Linux PCs off of cablemodems for years now w/o 
> problems, is there something new Comcast Atlanta could be doing to 
> prevent Linux OS PCs?

I don't think the modem is smart enough to detect the connecting OS, 
although I could be wrong.

Are you sure it wasn't simply the Comcast human who was making the 
'unsupported OS' statement?

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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