question connecting fedora to comcast

[Bob Bell]

On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:32:20PM -0400, Tatara wrote:
> The pc is hard-wired to my Linksys router (wrt54g), then to my Comcast
> cable modem.
> 
> Reading from my Red Hat Linux 9 Bible, I tried the Internet
> Configuration Wizard, with no luck.  None of the device types
> (ethernet, isdn, modem, token ring, wireless, or xDSL) seemed to be
> good matches, but I tried xDSL.  Eventually it gave me a device name
> ppp0, but it wouldn't activate.  Another device (eth0, with type
> ethernet), wouldn't activate either.

I'm not familiar with xDSL, but I wouldn't expect it to work; it's
probably trying to set up PPPoE, which shouldn't what you are using.

I suspect that the proper setting is "Ethernet".  Try making sure that
"DHCP" or "Dynamic IP address" is selected, NOT "static IP address".
Everything else should be "dynamic" as well, I would expect.

    -- Bob