OT: comcast

[Garrett Klein]

I would just like to add that with comcast, I have to send email using
smtp.comcast.net:587 (instead of the standard port 25). Other than that,
just plugging the ethernet cable into the back of the machine and
running dhclient or whatever should get this person up and running.

Garrett

On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 13:08 -0400, Igor Gueths wrote:
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> Hi. What Don said is indeed correct. As is the case with nearly any type of
> residential cable connection, you're going to use DHCP to get an IP address.
> Consequently, it's just a matter of running your favorite DHCP client i.e.,
> dhclient, dhcpcd, or whatever. What is a bit morp complex though is getting a
> DSL connection going, since a lot of the time you're stuck messing with PPPOE to
> get things going. It's been years since I've looked at relevant documantion, so
> that may in fact be a lot easier now. Hope this helps.
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 09:46:10AM -0700, DON.RAIKES at oracle.com wrote:
> > HI,
> > 
> > I use comcast with linux and have had no problems.
> > 
> > The only tricky part would be if your friend wanted to specify the nameservers, but if she uses dhcp to connect, it shouldn't be a problem.
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: chomiak7737 at att.net [mailto:chomiak7737 at att.net]
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 8:52 AM
> > To: speakup List
> > Subject: OT: comcast
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > I have  a sighted friend I've been helping learn linux and get on the
> > Internet using dialup. For various reasons I won't explain here, I've
> > needed to try to make things as simple and straightforward for my friend
> > as possible; she's doing ok but getting rid of dialup would make things a
> > lot less complicated.  she's in Colorado and I'm in Wisconsin and since
> > she doesn't have a cell phone I can't have her get online and then give me
> > her ip address so I can go on her computer. Because of this I thought that
> > if we change her service, cable might be better than dsl; at least here in
> > Wisconsin, getting linked up with charter is a lot more straightforward
> > than getting linked up with AT&T. The best scenario would be that all I
> > would have to do is guide her through editing her /etc/network/interfaces
> > and when the
> > technician connected her she'd be good to go.  However, when I did some
> > googling about Comcast and linux, it appeared a lot of people had problems
> > getting Comcast to work for them so now I'm unsure whether or not to try
> > this for my friend. does anybody on this list use Comcast and if so can
> > you tell me how difficult it was to get it to work for you with linux; my
> > friend is just using text-based linux also, no gui. I know this is pretty
> > OT so feel free to reply directly to me.
> > 
> > Tia for any help.
> > 
> > 
> > 
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> > 
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> > there will your heart be also."
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> Igor
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