I've installed Feisty -- now need to get Comcast HSI up & running........

[George E Noon]

Quick [for me! ;-)  ] post, as i am only home for lunch right now:
I opened a terminal, as suggested and typed in
/sbin/ifconfig|grep "inet addr" 'enter'; and got the following
inet addr: 196.254.7.43
Bcast: 169.254.255.255
Mask: 255.255.0.0
inet addr: 127.0.0.1
Mask: 255.255.0.0

recalling the necessity of rebooting the Cable Modem, from some years
back [when i had set up a LAN at home], I disconnected the modem's power
for just over a minute and then reconnected it and re-ran the
/sbin/ifconfig|grep "inet addr" - command, and got
inet addr: 71.233.217.190
Bcast: 169.254.255.255
Mask: 255.255.0.0
inet addr: 127.0.0.1
Mask: 255.255.0.0

I am picking up a Linksys-802.11g Wireless Router - WRT54G at the Best
Buy store at Westgate Mall, Brockton MA, today right after work and will
let you know how tat works out.
Thanks, everyone for all the help -- you are great folks to be
associated with.
~~~George

On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 23:40 -0400, George Ernest Noon wrote:
> Yes, thank you for the reminder: I recall now, that while my
> son was still in High School, i had to set up a Windows Local
> Area Network in our apartment; and, though at that time, i
> was getting my internet  connection through a  Verizon DSL
> modem, I had to disconnect its power feed for a minimum of 45
> sec., if I recall rightly.		
> Come to think on it, now,I set that one up with a Linksys Router,
> as well, though I'm quite certain it was a different model:
> for one thing, it was not wireless; I really recall having to
> bore holes through walls to feed wires through......
> 
> 
> > Maybe you solved it already and this is old news, but I also have 
> Comcast as my ISP. If you ever make any change to your network you
> need to reset the modem -- which includes taking the battery out if
> it has one. Theoretically, pushing the reset button will work but that
> wasn't successful for me. I have two ethernet ports on my motherboard
> and it requires resetting if I switch just between those two.
> > 
> > Theresa
> > 
> > On 10/21/07, Caleb Marcus <caleb.marcus at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >     Damn, I completely forgot that that could be the problem! If that's the 
> case, he's MUCH better off getting a router than changing the MAC address
> associated with the ISP account, 'cause then he'd be locked out of one of his
> computers.
> > 
> >     On 10/21/07, Steve Pomeroy < steve at staticfree.info> wrote:
> > 
> >         On Sun, Oct 21, 2007 at 05:32:25PM -0400, Caleb Marcus wrote:
> >         > It sounds like you could definitely use a router so you don't have to
> >         > switch your networking cables... and a KVM for the
> >         > keyboard/mouse/monitor. Quite useful stuff. Also, a router may solve
> >         > your problems... it'll handle the connection with the ISP, and I'm sure
> >         > that even if Comcast modems have some issue with Linux, your router
> >         > won't. My friend uses Comcast and a Linksys WRT54G wireless router, and
> >         > his Linux computers connect just fine. (the WRT54G is a great router, by
> >         > the way)
> > 
> >         It's usually an issue with the cable company binding the cable modem to
> >         a particular MAC address.
> > 
> >         You can check to see if this is the case by seeing what IP address your
> >         computer has. I don't have a fiesty install in front of me at the
> >         moment, but if you open up a terminal (Accessories -> Terminal)
> >         and type:
> >                 /sbin/ifconfig|grep "inet addr"
> >         you should get a few lines that start with "inet addr:". If you see
> >         any that then follow with 169.xxx then you are probably not connected.
> > 
> >         You should contact Comcast and tell them that you plugged a different computer
> >         into your cable modem. If plan on getting a router, you can avoid this
> >         by just telling them that you plugged a router in.
> > 
> > 
> >         -Steve
> >         --
> >         Steve Pomeroy
> >         http://staticfree.info/
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