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Peter Winn wrote:

> Could someone help me? I am running freebsd 7.2 and trying to connect
> to my ISP using pppoa.
> I have a usb Alcatel speedtouch modem but the driver cannot find the
> modem. The kernel says the modem
> is -   cdce0: usb0 on uhub0    but when I look in /dev  I cannot see
> that device. When I try to ./MAKEDEV cdce0
> it says command not found.

Don't have this arrangement [Verizon DSL with PPPoE here]. However there is 
a page on this in the Handbook:

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/pppoa.html

Have no clue as to whether it is stale and out of date, or not. But you 
might give it a go if you haven't tried it yet.

-Mike