Re: [Sheflug] BlueYonder

["Chris J/#6" <nospam [at] nccnet.co.uk>]

> I know this is going backwards a bit, but has anyone actually got
> BlueYonder cablemodem service on a Linux box? And if so, did you have to
> pretend to run windows to get them to install it?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Craig Andrews
> craig [at] fishbot.org.uk
> 

Blue Yonder runs fine on Linux - all you need is a linux supported net card, 
and a DHCP client, like dhclient (in the dhcpd package from ISC) or pump 
(which is what redhat use, and I've read reports of people saying pump is not 
very good compared to dhclient...personally, I don't know :)

>From reading uk.telecom.broadband, you need Win<XX> running as they install 
drivers and stuff and test the installation before leaving. After that, you 
can boot back into Linux if you desire and run dhclient on eth<X> to get 
Linux online.

There are reports that you /may/ be able to sign off the installation as 
complete without the bod doing owt to your machine if you ask them. But then 
if it doesn't work, you have no comeback as you signed the form saying 
everything went okay.

I'd say deja for BlueYonder in uk.telecom.broadband, but since Google bought 
Deja's news service, the search engine is really bad for news as Google have 
dropped things like Deja's power search on the grounds that it would "cost 
too much to maintain".

Chris...

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