[svlug] using Comcast modem and a Linksys router?

[Anna Edwards]

For a linksys box, if you have a proper ethernet adapter and an ethernet cable, the modem dosnt see the computers, it only sees the router. That is, if he didn't set up the router to be a see through. In any case, if you have a ubuntu box and you want wireless G, I would use a WUSB54G Adapter with Ubuntu (due to the fact of native compatibility) Model V4. For windows 2000, a proper driver exists, so you can use both if needed

Christian Einfeldt <einfeldt at gmail.com> wrote:  hi 

I need a little help getting a router working with a Comcats modem for one of the students who got a box from the ACCRC - Untangle installfest.  The Gutsy box can't see the Internet, but a Windows Pro 2000 box can see the Internet.  Daniel Gimpelevich, who is almost never wrong about these things, believes that this modem will recognize only one MAC address (if I understand Daniel correctly).  Since her mother has a Windows Pro 2000 desktop box that is currently connected to the Comcast DSL modem, Daniel thinks that we need to call Comcast to get their permission to recognize any other device.

We would like to try to connect the router to Comcast modem, which hopefully will then issue IP addresses for the two boxes down stream, the Windows box and the Ubuntu box.  I am wondering if we should just contact Comcast and ask them to allow the router to stand between the Comcast modem and the two boxes, or if there are some other tricks that might work.  

Thanks in advance.

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