From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 29 12: 9:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from nfs1-1.bctel.ca (nfs1-1.bctel.ca [207.194.28.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8357115571 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:09:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from stainsby@telus.net) Received: from ws1 (vanc06m02-128.bctel.ca [207.194.18.128]) by nfs1-1.bctel.ca (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id MAA01112 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:09:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <004f01bf2240$ce9229c0$8012c2cf@ws1> From: "Erik Stainsby" To: Subject: Re: FreeBSD & DSL Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 12:07:11 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.2106.4 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.2106.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In BC the offial line is Mac/Wintel support only. *nix users are offially accepted, but no questions will be ansered. Again the treatment is as if we are security threats because we want a secure OS that has server capabilities. Corporate cultures are so insular. (oops, there I go marginalizing myself again ... =) Cheers, Erik stainsby@telus.net ======================================== There was no year zero. The next millenium begins January 1, 2001. ======================================== -----Original Message----- From: Chris To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 1:32 PM Subject: Re: FreeBSD & DSL >I'll go further and say no mention of the OS at all. @home started >taping my phonecall actually when I called them to complain about >latency etc. on the net. Some of the providers of cable have switched >to USB only modems to exclude anyone that runs anything else. It's all >ridiculous as 'support' for configuration of linux/BSD etc. would be >simpler than memorizing all the myriad Win settings in the end. > >The CA branch of @home seems to view an altOS user as a threat of some >sort so it seems. Tres bizarre. > >"Jonathan E. Lyons" wrote: >> >> Nope, just call and ask them if the IP address is DHCP assigned, or static. >> They probably won't support unix, and may give you a hassel if you tell >> them you're attempting to use a non-windows OS. At least thats what my >> cable provider does, but everything was assigned via DCHP so setup was >> simple... >> >> At 02:03 PM 10/27/99 -0500, you wrote: >> > >> >Is anyone using FreeBSD connected to Rhythms DSL service? >> > >> >Their web page says they support a PC running windoze. >> >Has anyone had any experience with their tech support staff being >> >able to deal with customers running FreeBSD? >> > >> >TIA, >> >Terry Todd >> > >> > >> >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message >> > >> > >> >> Jonathan E. Lyons >> parrothd@midwest.net Nucleus Consulting >> ICQ # 14226912 www.nucleusconsulting.com >> Cell # 773-251-1967 A+, MCSE, CCNA, FreeBSD! >> Pager # 7732511967@mobile.att.net >> >> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message