On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 18:26 +0000, auditodd at comcast.net wrote: > I replaced my cable modem with Comcast back at the beginning of the year. I was leasing the modem and Comcast refused to simply "give" me the modem as was their current promotion at the time for new users. So a functional, but 3 year old modem is probably now on a scrap pile some where. > > Anyway, when I went to register the new modem with Comcast Tech Support, I simply hooked up a laptop directly to the modem and opened a browser, then they walked me through going to a web site that registered the modem with Comcast. No software install required. I think I used a Windows laptop (with a software firewall), but I don't see why a Linux machine couldn't do the same thing, unless their modem registration depends on something within IE that won't work with Firefox/Mozilla. > > -- > ---- > ------ > Todd Young That's odd, for mine they had a CD rom with a .exe I had to run through and enter things like my account number and such. The test actually left without knowing if my modem was up because I didn't have a windows machine to set it up with. It was actually a couple days later after trying to talk to tech support I broke down and borrowed my fiance's laptop. I guess I just ran into stubborn people that wouldn't tell me the "web way". Rick