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

[Caleb Marcus]

Comcast definitely works with Linux, it's just another ISP... How are
you trying to connect to the Internet? Are you using a wireless network,
plugging ethernet directly into the modem, or ethernet into a router?

George Ernest Noon wrote:
> all,
> 	I've installed Ubuntu Feisty with a disk I got
> at our 10.18.07 Release Party ----
> it works great; although i did have premonitions of
> being totally without printing ability, with my Epson
> Stylus C66, those worries were totally unfounded: it was
> up and happily printing in just a few clicks.
> Internet connection & e-mail is a different story, though;
> mostly on account of two things, I believe:
> 1. Comcast High Speed Internet lists Linux as 'unsupported'
> & 2. my own inexperience
> I guess, now that I've switched my keyboard, mouse, speakers,
> Ethernet cable and monitor cable back over to my older
> Pent3 533MHz 512MB Ram Windblows machine, I'll do some
> searching through its Internet & e-mail settings (in Firefox &
> Thunderbird, as well as through Control Panel) - get all the
> settings i can find down on paper; but I guess the IP address I'll
> need has to be that of my Ubuntu Box. Question, how do I find
> the IP address of the computer, since it is evidently not
> just automatically filled in?
> Hey!; enough for now: I tend to go really wordy, if I'm not
> careful. Thanks greatly in advance for any & all help.
> ~~~~~~George
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