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Mandrake 8/8.1 Question

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beach2nd1

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I have a cable modem with the cox@home service and I was wondering if I installed mandrake if I will be able to connect to the internet with it. I am only wondering because cox doesn't list any distro of linux as a supported os on their site. Thanks.
 
I use mandrake 8.1 and connect to comcast@home without problems. You just give it the same info you would give windows and its fine. You don't need the @home software to work anyway.
 
You'd probably get better answers in the OS forum since that's where a lot of the Linux guys hang.

If you have an internal cable modem it could be tricky. If it's external and it goes into an ethernet card it should be a breeze unless your ethernet card is really new.
 
Should not be a problem. How do you get your IP address assigned from COX? Static, DHCP, PPPoE? Linux supports all of these.
 
I have Cox-RoadRunner here in northern Virginia. I traditionally have had no problems connecting via DHCP in Mandrake. I even have thrown a 4-port Ethernet router into the mix, again with no problems.

-SUO
 
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