discuss: Cable Modem HOWTO
Subject:
Re: Cable Modem HOWTO
From:
Howard Shane ####@####.####
Date:
2 Aug 2004 13:18:16 -0000
Message-Id: <20040802131817.GA27350@K7.austin.rr.com>
A rough cut of this document now available online for review at
http://www.hshanemd.net/docs/HOWTOS/Cable-Modem/index.html
Comments, criticisms and insults are hereby solicited.
Thanks,
hs
On 06/30/04 13:01:34, Jess Portnoy wrote:
> Hello All,
> I reviewed Howard's how to. It actually resembles mine (can be found
> at http://www.freewebs.com/linuxnet/CableUSBLinuxEn.html) in some
> aspects, only mine deals only with connecting the cable modem using
> the USB interface and has some remarks that can only assist Israeli
> users. The CDCEther/usbnet module works well for all cable modems
> I've tested (Motorola SurfBoard, Terayon TJ715, Ambit and others)
> so Howard's guide can be revised to state that, so to help users who
> wish to connect a cable modem other than Motorola SurfBoard as well.
> I appreciate your offer to use it.
>
> Use Linux - live longer
> Best regards,
> Jess Portnoy
>
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> Howard Shane wrote:
>
>> On 06/30/04 01:14:16, Machtelt Garrels wrote:
>> Jess Portnoy had some suggestions and proposed
>>
>>> to take over authorship if the license allows, so as to keep the
>>> document up to date.
>>>
>> I proposed updating this document about a year ago; see
>>
>> http://lists.tldp.org/index.cgi?1:mss:4642
>>
>> The stumbling block was what to do about the catalogue of cable
>> providers that was probably out of date before the first version was
>> published. The suggestion was made to drop it, but since it
>> comprises most of the document and no consensus was reached it
>> never got off the ground.
>>
>> Jess should feel free to plagiarize my Motorola-centric Cable Modem
>> HOWTO at
>>
>> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Motorola-Surfboard-Modem/index.html
>>
>> ...which has a lot of basic info on cable modem configuration not
>> specific to that brand.
>>
>> hs
>>
>>
