[ale] Help me resurrect my cable modem

[Chris Fowler]

On Fri, 2009-05-08 at 21:52 -0400, Richard Bronosky wrote:
> I have a Linksys BEFCMU10 ver.3 that quit working today. I have
> borrowed my neighbor's Motorola cable modem to verify that my line is
> good. It is. That's how I'm sending this email. My Linksys, however
> never gets the "Cable" light lit. I have been Googling for hours and
> I'm still confused about this WAN side provisioning and firmware
> updating. I have Comcast Dallas service. I don't know what my next
> step should be. It seems that, indeed, Linksys does not offer any
> firmware to the consumer.
> 
> Please advise.
> 

If you are using another modem on your cable then it seems to me the
course of action would be to go to BestBuy or Fy's and purchase a
replacement modem.  Possibly your has finally had a failure?