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From: "Christian S." <cschreiber@netrail.net>
To: "Doug Young" <dougy@bryden.apana.org.au>, <neo911@bellsouth.net>,
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Subject: RE: Alcatel SpeedTouch USB modem driver
Date: Wed, 2 May 2001 11:21:36 -0400
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Yah, Bellsouth uses PPPoA (Although they claim that one can actually
vaccillate (sp?) 'twixt the two, and not make any difference.)
AFAICT, all the USB models were PPPoA, but that's just in my limited
experience (Well, they didn't have the RJ45 jack, so there wasn't
much Ethernet to do.. Harumph.)

However, you had to get a guy out there, right? That's the whole
thing with BS - They don't want to send a tech (To split the line),
so they make it prohibitively expensive so us, the customer, is stuck
with the "Wow-Do-It-Yourself" USB install..

No, I'm not bitter.. not at all.. :p

Chrisitan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Doug Young
> I just swapped my initial W2K / ADSL gateway box for a FreeBSD 4.2
> one a couple weeks ago & didn't need any extra drivers, however I
> was fortunate enough to get a "proper" ethernet model Alcatel ....
> actually 
> they tried to
> foist a USB thingy on me but I made certain there weren't any USB
> boxes lying around when the techo came to install ADSL so he didn't
> have a choice
> :)
> 
> My guess is the linux drivers won't work but FreeBSD 4.x versions 
> apparently
> have some sort of USB support .... probably best to start with the
> latest release (4.3) though. Maybe someone else knows more about
> this stuff. The setup will depend on whether your ISP uses PPPoE or
> PPTP.
> Mine is PPPoE & was a relatively painless exercise after reading 
> stuff like
> the online handbook, man ppp, plus a heap of assorted HOWTOs from
> freebsddiary.org, bsdvault.net, etc etc

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