I am looking for help from some more experienced linux users(SuSE, RH, Mandrake, Debian). I'm going to try to write up a troubleshooting guide for linux that comcast can put in their database. Stuff i would need is ... what are the other flavors of YAST2, and where is the network card info entered and dhcp enabled(like yast2 > network > network card). Routing info? Where are the logs for the other versions and in which log would the network errors go. /var/log/localmessages Where is /etc/resolv.conf in the other flavors(or its replacement)? What is the syntax in the other flavors? I need to talk to my trainer and a manager in my class but I'm pretty sure they'll go for it. All comcast has now is a linux entry that says not supported. Please contact me off list if you can help or think of other info that i would need. TIA -- E.F.Maurer Using SuSE 9.0 Pro
Dear E.F., As a Comcast customer, I can offer no technical guidance, but a large amount of moral support and gratitude. I've been a Linux user for nearly five years, and moved to Comcast broadband recently. One of the reasons I shifted was because, while Ccst doesn't officially support Linux, it did have a section for Linux users on how to configure their systems for dial-up. (Actually, I just used YaST to configure my PCMCIA modem for Comcast, ran KInternet, and it ran from the git-go.) Still, it's refreshing to see even expanded "unofficial" support. BTW, while Comcast may only serve the States, I notice Sun has locked up a deal in China to put Linux and Star Office on more than 1 million government machines. Seems to me that forward-looking ISPs would be interested in getting Linux users on line... Best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in Home: 508-520-3139 pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
refreshing to see even expanded "unofficial" support. BTW, while Comcast may only serve the States, I notice Sun has locked up a deal in China to put Linux and Star Office on more than 1 million government machines. Could you please provide a link to this piece of news. I searched the Sun website but couldn't find anything on this. This is the sort of
Peter N. Spotts wrote: article that I am collecting in my scrapbook of articles about companies and countries switching to Linux Damon Register
On 11/20/2003 02:48 AM, Damon Register wrote:
Could you please provide a link to this piece of news. I searched the
Sun website but couldn't find anything on this. This is the sort of article that I am collecting in my scrapbook of articles about companies and countries switching to Linux
Damon Register
Check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34077.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/54/34068.html http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34057.html -- Joe Morris New Tribes Mission Email Address: Joe_Morris@ntm.org Web Address: http://www.mydestiny.net/~joe_morris Registered Linux user 231871 God said, I AM that I AM. I say, by the grace of God, I am what I am.
Check out the San Jose Mercury-News (Calif.) website http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/7285339.htm Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts Science and technology correspondent | The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in Home: 508-520-3139 pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com | www.peterspotts.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
On Wednesday 19 November 2003 9:59 am, Peter N. Spotts wrote:
Dear E.F.,
As a Comcast customer, I can offer no technical guidance, but a large amount of moral support and gratitude. I've been a Linux user for nearly five years, and moved to Comcast broadband recently. One of the reasons I shifted was because, while Ccst doesn't officially support Linux, it did have a section for Linux users on how to configure their systems for dial-up. (Actually, I just used YaST to configure my PCMCIA modem for Comcast, ran KInternet, and it ran from the git-go.) Still, it's refreshing to see even expanded "unofficial" support. BTW, while Comcast may only serve the States, I notice Sun has locked up a deal in China to put Linux and Star Office on more than 1 million government machines. Seems to me that forward-looking ISPs would be interested in getting Linux users on line...
Best,
Pete
Please voice your displeasure to Comcast. If they see a large enough user base(aka threats to go to dsl) they'll officially train their CAE's in linux. I'm not sure of the email address at their corporate site. but that's where they'd have to go. I'll try to get my troubleshooting guide completed but I doubt it'll be included. The only reason why they support macs is because they can say 10% of all comcast subscribers use macs. If they only knew there were more than a couple of linux users it might change. -- E.F.Maurer Using SuSE 9.0 Pro
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