Re: [Sheflug] BlueYonder

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.org.uk>]

And hence the problem. I will have to nick a HDD and a windows disk from
somewhere. Or I might phone them up, make sure I get a soft salesperson,
and tell them if they don't install it anyway, they can stick it and they
lose a customer. Don't think that'll work though.

I am stumped at the system requirements. As far as I can tell, the only
real requirement is for a working NIC with 10BaseT connection. The
requirements list they provide is scarily similar to that of IE5.5. Hmmm,
coincidence? I think not...

So, I'll have a word with them, because the machine it will be going into
will be a p100 running a stripped down SuSE 7.0. not quite up to their
standards, so if they install it in my 'suitable' desktop machine, I'll
only rip it out the second he gets out of the door.

<hatred-mode level="severe">
AAAAAARGH! WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY WHY THIS DEPENDENCY ON M$? It's all the
tech's know, they say. THEY HAD TO LEARN WINDOWS AT SOME POINT! You aren't
born with that knowledge (unless you mix Windoze and the human genome. No,
don't even go there!) If I stick it on the end of my network card,
configured for DHCP, and get something back from it, shouldn't that do?
</hatred-mode>

Anyway, I'm going to lie down for a bit...

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.org.uk

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On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, Chris J/#6 wrote:

> 
> > 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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