On Sun, 07 Sep 2003 17:34:19 -0700
Mark Knecht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 16:47, Kevin Miller, Jr. wrote:
> > Okay, I attempted to install Gentoo 1.4 today. I managed to get the
> > partitions okay. I had several problems that arose:
> >
> > 1. I could not automatically configure the Network connection with
> > net-setup eth0. I think this is Comcast's fault since they make it
> > difficult for Linux user's to connect online. They only support
> > Windows and Apple users. Any Comcast users who were successful in
> > connecting with the internet?
>
> Yes, but I'm behind an inexpensive LinkSys BEFSR11 firewall. I have
> very few problems with Comcast here in the BAy Area.
>
All you really should need is the following value in /etc/conf.d/net
iface_eth0="DHCP"
Try this and then /etc/init.d/net.eth0 start (you might need stop
first); then ping www.kde.org (or a specific ip address).
Comcast uses DHCP. My router does this for me. The router also asks to
be provided with DNS servers, so the following data may not be needed.
I'm still working with the following settings in my router (setup way
back when with ATT):
System name:: c99999 (the original hostname supplied to me by ATT)
Domain: attbi.comDEST (this is suspect; probably no good by end
of year. Get the current value
from comcast)
DDNS: WWW.DynDNS.ORG
Use DHCP to connect to comcast.
Your email servers are:
mail.comcast.net (retrieve)
smtp.comcast.net (send)
Also, if you happen to have a windows machine, you can do the settup,
then read out the settings from the windows tcp/ip properties.
HTH
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