On Fri, Aug 15, 2003 at 09:08:43PM -0500, Comcast Mail wrote: > > I'm having way to much fun. me too, I'm drinking red stripe beer :) > <snip> > > ifconfig -a shows eth0 is up, it has an assigned IP address from > comcast. good, and you can ping an IP address such as 128.101.101.101? can you ping a hostname such as google.com? If you answered yes to the first and no the the second than you need to add some DNS servers to your /etc/resolv.conf file. Your ISP should have some handy for you to use, if not, I am sure the list can provide some assistance with that as well. <snip> > > I'm failing miserably at this point. naw, the Inet just needs a reboot ;) > <snip> > > Another note: Comcast was not much help with providing > dns/gateway/ip address information for configuring the system. The > install guy didn't have any of that information so I had to connect > with a windows laptop to run winipcf to get some information. Is your computer connet directly into the cable modem, or do you have a firewall between you and the cable modem? > > Thanks in anticipation, no, thank you :) good luck. -- Linux Administrator || Technology Specialist || Wifi Engineer http://autonomous.tv/~spencer/resume/ || spencer at autonomous.tv Key fingerprint = 173B 8760 E59F DBF8 6FD2 68F8 ABA2 AB08 49C7 4754 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20030815/4092aa32/attachment.pgp